498 BC

Year 498 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Siculus and Flavus (or, less frequently, year 256 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 498 BC for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

Millennium: 1st millennium BC
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
498 BC in various calendars
Gregorian calendar498 BC
CDXCVII BC
Ab urbe condita256
Ancient Egypt eraXXVII dynasty, 28
- PharaohDarius I of Persia, 24
Ancient Greek era70th Olympiad, year 3
Assyrian calendar4253
Balinese saka calendarN/A
Bengali calendar−1090
Berber calendar453
Buddhist calendar47
Burmese calendar−1135
Byzantine calendar5011–5012
Chinese calendar壬寅年 (Water Tiger)
2199 or 2139
     to 
癸卯年 (Water Rabbit)
2200 or 2140
Coptic calendar−781 – −780
Discordian calendar669
Ethiopian calendar−505 – −504
Hebrew calendar3263–3264
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat−441 – −440
 - Shaka SamvatN/A
 - Kali Yuga2603–2604
Holocene calendar9503
Iranian calendar1119 BP – 1118 BP
Islamic calendar1153 BH – 1152 BH
Javanese calendarN/A
Julian calendarN/A
Korean calendar1836
Minguo calendar2409 before ROC
民前2409年
Nanakshahi calendar−1965
Thai solar calendar45–46
Tibetan calendar阳水虎年
(male Water-Tiger)
−371 or −752 or −1524
     to 
阴水兔年
(female Water-Rabbit)
−370 or −751 or −1523

Events

By place

Greece

  • Alexander I succeeds his father Amyntas I as king of Macedonia.
  • Athens and Eretria respond to the Ionian plea for help against Persia and send troops. An Athenian and Eretrian fleet transports Athenian troops to Ephesus. There they are joined by a force of Ionians and march upon Sardis, the capital of Artaphernes (the satrap of Lydia and brother to Darius I of Persia). Artaphernes, who has sent most of his troops to besiege Miletus, is taken by surprise. However, Artaphernes is able to retreat to the citadel and hold it. Although the Greeks are unable to take the citadel, they pillage the town and set fires that burn Sardis to the ground.
  • Retreating to the coast, the Greek forces are met by the Persians under Artaphernes and defeated in the Battle of Ephesus.
  • Kaunos and Caria, followed by Byzantium and towns in the Hellespont also revolt against the Persians. Cyprus also joins the rebellion, as Onesilus removes his pro-Persian brother, Gorgos, from the throne of Salamis.

Sicily

  • After the assassination of Cleander, tyrant of Gela, power is transferred to his brother, Hippocrates, who subdues the Sicels and conquers the Chalcidian cities of Callipoli, Leontini, Naxos and Zancle (now known as Messina). He also captures the Syracusan city of Camarina, but is prevented from capturing Syracuse itself when Corinth and Corcyra interferes in the war.

By topic

Literature

  • The earliest surviving of the Greek poets Pindar's epinikion (Pythian ode 10) is written.

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