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Roman consul Spurius Cassius Vecellinius, who had brokered a peace between the Romans and the Latin League in 493 B.C.E., is accused of trying to make himself the king of Rome after he tries to change agrarian laws to favor the plebian class. He is condemned and executed.
Xerxes I (the Great) becomes king of Persia following the death of his father, Darius I. He maintains Persian control over Egypt and Babylonia. He sends troops against the Greeks, defeating a heroic rearguard stand by the Spartans and other Greeks, under the generalship of the Spartan king Leonidas, at the Battle of Thermopylae (480 B.C.E.). Persian troops burn Athens, but Xerxes' fleet is destroyed at Salamis, forcing his withdrawal to Asia Minor. He rules until 464 B.C.E., when he is killed by the captain of his personal guard.
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