Sparta Defeats Athens: The Peloponnesian War Ends
Lysander's Spartan fleet crushes the Athenian navy at Aegospotami, compelling Athens to surrender and dismantling its empire. This decisive victory ends the Peloponnesian War, shifting Greek hegemony from Athens to Sparta and triggering a decade of brutal oligarchic rule known as the Thirty Tyrants.
April 25, 404 BC
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