490s BC

Events

499 BC

By place

Greece

• After a failed attack on the rebellious island of Naxos in 502 BC (on behalf of the Persians), Aristagoras, to save himself from the wrath of Persia, plans a revolt with the Milesians and the other Ionians. With the encouragement of Histiaeus (his father-in-law and former tyrant of Miletus), Aristagoras, governor of Miletus, induces the Ionian cities of Asia Minor to revolt against Persia, thus instigating the Ionian Revolt and beginning the Greco-Persian Wars between Greece and Persia. The pro-Persian tyrant of Mytilene is stoned to death.
• Aristagoras seeks help with the revolt against the Persians from Cleomenes I, the King of Sparta, but the Spartans are unwilling to respond.
• Miltiades the Younger, the ruler of the Thracian Chersonese, which has been under Persian suzerainty since approximately 514 BC, joins the Ionian revolt. He seizes the islands of Lemnos and Imbros from the Persians.

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Births

• 496 BC – Sophocles, Athenian dramatist and statesman
• c. 495 BC
  • Pericles, Athenian politician (d. 429 BC)
  • Zeno of Elea, Greek philosopher (d. c. 430 BC)
• c. 490 BC
  • Empedocles, Greek philosopher (d. c. 430 BC)
  • Phidias, Greek sculptor (d. c. 430 BC)

Deaths

• 498 BC – Amyntas I, king of Macedonia
• 496 BC
  • Pythagoras, Greek philosopher and mathematician
  • Sun Tzu, general, military strategist, and author of The Art of War (traditional date)
• 491 BC– Hippocrates, Tyrant of Gela

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