492 BC

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Millennium: 1st millennium BC
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: 495 BC 494 BC 493 BC – 492 BC – 491 BC 490 BC 489 BC
492 BC by topic
Politics
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492 BC in other calendars
Gregorian calendar492 BC
Ab urbe condita262
Armenian calendarN/A
Assyrian calendar4259
Bahá'í calendar−2335 – −2334
Bengali calendar−1084
Berber calendar459
English Regnal yearN/A
Buddhist calendar53
Burmese calendar−1129
Byzantine calendar5017–5018
Chinese calendar戊申年 (Earth Monkey)
2205 or 2145
    — to —
己酉年 (Earth Rooster)
2206 or 2146
Coptic calendar−775 – −774
Discordian calendar675
Ethiopian calendar−499 – −498
Hebrew calendar3269–3270
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat−435 – −434
 - Shaka SamvatN/A
 - Kali Yuga2610–2611
Holocene calendar9509
Igbo calendar−1491 – −1490
Iranian calendar1113 BP – 1112 BP
Islamic calendar1147 BH – 1146 BH
Japanese calendarN/A
Juche calendarN/A
Julian calendarN/A
Korean calendar1842
Minguo calendar2403 before ROC
民前2403年
Thai solar calendar52
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Year 492 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Macerinus and Augurinus (or, less frequently, year 262 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 492 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

  • The first expedition of King Darius I of Persia against Greece commences under the leadership of his son-in-law and general, Mardonius. Darius sends Mardonius to succeed his satrap (governor) in Ionia, Artaphernes, with a special commission to attack Athens and Eretria.
  • The Persians under Mardonius subdue and capture Thrace and Macedonia.
  • Mardonius loses some 300 ships in a storm off Mount Athos, which forces him to abandon his plans to attack Athens and Eretria.

Sicily

  • When Camarina, a Syracusan colony, rebels, Hippocrates, the tyrant of Gela, intervenes to wage war against Syracuse. After defeating the Syracusan army at the Heloros River, he besieges the city. However, he is persuaded by the intervention of forces from the Greek mainland city of Corinth to retreat in exchange for the possession of Camarina.

Rome

  • Following the conclusion of the secession of the plebs, a famine strikes Rome. The consuls avert the crisis by obtaining grain from Etruria.
  • War with the Volsci is averted because a pestilence affects the Volsci. Rome sends additional colonists to Velitrae and establishes a new colony in Norba.

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