498 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: | 501 BC 500 BC 499 BC - 498 BC - 497 BC 496 BC 495 BC |
| 498 BC by topic | |
| Politics | |
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| Gregorian calendar | 498 BC |
| Ab urbe condita | 256 |
| Armenian calendar | N/A |
| Bahá'í calendar | -2341 – -2340 |
| Berber calendar | 453 |
| Buddhist calendar | 47 |
| Burmese calendar | -1135 |
| Chinese calendar | 2139/2199 ([[Sexagenary cycle|]]年) — to —
2140/2200([[Sexagenary cycle|]]年) |
| Coptic calendar | -781 – -780 |
| Ethiopian calendar | -505 – -504 |
| Hebrew calendar | 3263 – 3264 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | -442 – -441 |
| - Shaka Samvat | N/A |
| - Kali Yuga | 2604 – 2605 |
| Holocene calendar | 9503 |
| Iranian calendar | 1119 BP – 1118 BP |
| Islamic calendar | 1153 BH – 1152 BH |
| Japanese calendar | |
| Korean calendar | 1836 |
| Thai solar calendar | 46 |
[edit] Events
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[edit] 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.
- 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.
[edit] 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.
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[edit] Literature
- The earliest surviving of the Greek poets Pindar's epinikion (Pythian ode 10) is written.
