486 BC

Millennium:	1st millennium BC
Centuries:	6th century BC – 5th century BC – 4th century BC
Decades:	510s BC  500s BC  490s BC  – 480s BC –  470s BC  460s BC  450s BC
Years:	489 BC 488 BC 487 BC – 486 BC – 485 BC 484 BC 483 BC

486 BC by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

486 BC in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	486 BC
Ab urbe condita	268
Armenian calendar	N/A
Assyrian calendar	4265
Bahá'í calendar	-2329–-2328
Bengali calendar	-1078
Berber calendar	465
English Regnal year	N/A
Buddhist calendar	59
Burmese calendar	-1123
Byzantine calendar	5023–5024
Chinese calendar	甲寅年 (2151/2211) — to — 乙卯年 (2152/2212)
Coptic calendar	-769–-768
Ethiopian calendar	-493–-492
Hebrew calendar	3275–3276
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	-429–-428
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	2616–2617
Holocene calendar	9515
Iranian calendar	1107 BP – 1106 BP
Islamic calendar	1141 BH – 1140 BH
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar	1848
Minguo calendar	2397 before ROC 民前2397年
Thai solar calendar	58

Year 486 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Viscellinus and Rutilus (or, less frequently, year 268 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 486 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

Persian empire

• Egypt revolts against Persian rule upon the death of Darius I. The revolts, probably led by Libyans of the western Delta, are crushed the next year by Xerxes, who reduces Egypt to the status of a conquered province.

Roman Republic

• During his third consulate, the Roman consul Spurius Cassius Viscellinus proposes an agrarian law to assist needy plebeians, a measure violently opposed both by the patricians and by the wealthy plebeians, who have Cassius condemned and executed.

China

• The first part of the Grand Canal of China is built during the reign of King Fuchai of Wu. It links the Yangtze River with the Huai River, and is a measure to ship amble amount of supplies north for intended wars with the northern states of Song and Lu.

By topic

Art

• The construction of a relief in the Apadana, a ceremonial complex at Persepolis, is finished. It shows Darius and Xerxes receiving tribute and is now kept in the Iranbustan Museum in Tehran.

Births

Deaths

• Spurius Cassius Vecellinus, Roman consul (executed)

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