485 BC

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Years:	488 BC · 487 BC · 486 BC · 485 BC · 484 BC · 483 BC · 482 BC

485 BC in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	485 BC CDLXXXIV BC
Ab urbe condita	269
Ancient Egypt era	XXVII dynasty, 41
- Pharaoh	Xerxes I of Persia, 1
Ancient Greek era	73rd Olympiad, year 4
Assyrian calendar	4266
Bengali calendar	−1077
Berber calendar	466
Buddhist calendar	60
Burmese calendar	−1122
Byzantine calendar	5024–5025
Chinese calendar	乙卯年 (Wood Rabbit) 2212 or 2152     — to — 丙辰年 (Fire Dragon) 2213 or 2153
Coptic calendar	−768 – −767
Discordian calendar	682
Ethiopian calendar	−492 – −491
Hebrew calendar	3276–3277
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	−428 – −427
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	2616–2617
Holocene calendar	9516
Iranian calendar	1106 BP – 1105 BP
Islamic calendar	1140 BH – 1139 BH
Javanese calendar	N/A
Julian calendar	N/A
Korean calendar	1849
Minguo calendar	2396 before ROC 民前2396年
Nanakshahi calendar	−1952
Thai solar calendar	58–59

Year 485 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Cornelius and Vibulanus (or, less frequently, year 269 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 485 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

• Darius I, one of the greatest rulers of the Achaemenid dynasty of Persia, dies and is succeeded by his son, Xerxes I. During this time the Persian empire extends as far west as Macedonia and Libya and as far east as the Hyphasis (Beas) River; it stretches to the Caucasus Mountains and the Aral Sea in the north and to the Persian Gulf and the Arabian Desert in the south.

Sicily

• Gelo, the tyrant of Gela, takes advantage of an appeal by the descendants of the first colonist of Syracuse, the Gamoroi, who had held power until they were expelled by the Killichiroi, the lower class of the city, and makes himself master of that city, leaving his brother Hieron to control Gela.

Roman Republic

• Three times Roman consul Spurius Cassius Viscellinus is tried, condemned and executed for high treason.
• The consul Quintus Fabius Vibulanus defeated the Volsci and Aequi in battle, but incurred the anger of the plebs by lodging the spoils of victory with the publicum.

Births

• Herodotus

Deaths

• Darius I, king of Persia (b. c. 549 BC)
• Spurius Cassius Viscellinus, three times Roman consul.

References