476 BC

Millennium:	1st millennium BC
Centuries:	6th century BC – 5th century BC – 4th century BC
Decades:	500s BC  490s BC  480s BC  – 470s BC –  460s BC  450s BC  440s BC
Years:	479 BC 478 BC 477 BC – 476 BC – 475 BC 474 BC 473 BC

476 BC by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

476 BC in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	476 BC
Ab urbe condita	278
Armenian calendar	N/A
Assyrian calendar	4275
Bahá'í calendar	-2319–-2318
Bengali calendar	-1068
Berber calendar	475
English Regnal year	N/A
Buddhist calendar	69
Burmese calendar	-1113
Byzantine calendar	5033–5034
Chinese calendar	甲子年 (2161/2221) — to — 乙丑年 (2162/2222)
Coptic calendar	-759–-758
Ethiopian calendar	-483–-482
Hebrew calendar	3285–3286
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	-419–-418
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	2626–2627
Holocene calendar	9525
Iranian calendar	1097 BP – 1096 BP
Islamic calendar	1131 BH – 1130 BH
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar	1858
Minguo calendar	2387 before ROC 民前2387年
Thai solar calendar	68

Year 476 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Rutilus and Structus (or, less frequently, year 278 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 476 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.

Events

By place

Greece

• Convicted in Sparta on the charge of accepting a bribe from the Aleudae family whilst leading an expedition to Thessaly against the family for their collaboration with the Persians, the Spartan King Leotychidas flees to the temple of Athena Alea in Tegea, Arcadia. A sentence of exile is passed upon him; his house is razed, and his grandson, Archidamus II, ascends the Spartan throne in his place.
• Cimon of Athens increases his power at the expense of Themistocles. He ousts Pausanias and the Spartans from the area around the Bosporus. The Spartans, hearing that Pausanias is intriguing with the Persians, recall him and he is "disciplined".
• Under the leadership of Kimon, the Delian League continues to fight the Persians and to release the Ionian cities from Persian domination. Athens' capture of Eion on the Strymon from the Persians is led by Cimon.

By topic

Literature

• The Greek poet Pindar visits Sicily and is made welcome at the courts of Theron of Acragas and Hieron I of Syracuse. They commission some of his greatest poetry. It is through these connections that Pindar's reputation spreads all over the Greek world.

Births

Deaths

• Zhou Jing Wang, king of the Chinese Zhou Dynasty

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