493 BC
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| Centuries: | 6th century BC - 5th century BC - 4th century BC |
| Decades: | 520s BC 510s BC 500s BC - 490s BC - 480s BC 470s BC 460s BC |
| Years: | 496 BC 495 BC 494 BC - 493 BC - 492 BC 491 BC 490 BC |
| 493 BC by topic | |
| Politics | |
| State leaders - Sovereign states | |
| Birth and death categories | |
| Births - Deaths | |
| Establishments and disestablishments categories | |
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| Gregorian calendar | 493 BC |
| Ab urbe condita | 261 |
| Armenian calendar | N/A |
| Bahá'í calendar | -2336 – -2335 |
| Berber calendar | 458 |
| Buddhist calendar | 52 |
| Burmese calendar | -1130 |
| Chinese calendar | 2144/2204 ([[Sexagenary cycle|]]年) — to —
2145/2205([[Sexagenary cycle|]]年) |
| Coptic calendar | -776 – -775 |
| Ethiopian calendar | -500 – -499 |
| Hebrew calendar | 3268 – 3269 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | -437 – -436 |
| - Shaka Samvat | N/A |
| - Kali Yuga | 2609 – 2610 |
| Holocene calendar | 9508 |
| Iranian calendar | 1114 BP – 1113 BP |
| Islamic calendar | 1148 BH – 1147 BH |
| Japanese calendar | |
| Korean calendar | 1841 |
| Thai solar calendar | 51 |
[edit] Events
[edit] By place
[edit] Persian Empire
- A Phoenician-manned Persian fleet restores Persian control of Cyprus.
[edit] Greece
- The Athenian people elect Themistocles as archon, the chief judicial and civilian executive officer in Athens. He favours resistance against the Persians.
- Themistocles starts the construction of a fortified naval base at Piraeus, the port town of Athens.
- Among the refugees arriving from Ionia after the collapse of the Ionian Revolt is a chief named Miltiades, who has a fine reputation as a soldier. Themistocles makes him a general in the Athenian army.
[edit] Roman republic
- Coriolanus captures the Volscian town of Corioli for Rome.
- During his second consulate, the Roman consul Spurius Cassius Vecellinus concludes a mutual defence treaty with the surrounding Latin villages and tribes. The treaty recognises commercial contracts binding throughout their cities. Rome abandons its claim to hegemony over the Latin league. In return, Rome is recognised as the dominant city in the League.
[edit] By topic
[edit] Literature
- The Athenian poet Phrynicus produces a tragedy on the Fall of Miletus. The Athenian authorities ban the play from further production on the grounds of impiety.
