478 BC

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478 BC in various calendars
Gregorian calendar 478 BC
CDLXXVIII BC
Ab urbe condita 276
Ancient Egypt era XXVII dynasty, 48
- Pharaoh Xerxes I of Persia, 8
Ancient Greek Olympiad (summer) 75th Olympiad, year 3
Assyrian calendar 4273
Balinese saka calendar N/A
Bengali calendar −1071 – −1070
Berber calendar 473
Buddhist calendar 67
Burmese calendar −1115
Byzantine calendar 5031–5032
Chinese calendar 壬戌年 (Water  Dog)
2220 or 2013
     to 
癸亥年 (Water  Pig)
2221 or 2014
Coptic calendar −761 – −760
Discordian calendar 689
Ethiopian calendar −485 – −484
Hebrew calendar 3283–3284
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat −421 – −420
 - Shaka Samvat N/A
 - Kali Yuga 2623–2624
Holocene calendar 9523
Iranian calendar 1099 BP – 1098 BP
Islamic calendar 1133 BH – 1132 BH
Javanese calendar N/A
Julian calendar N/A
Korean calendar 1856
Minguo calendar 2389 before ROC
民前2389年
Nanakshahi calendar −1945
Thai solar calendar 65–66
Tibetan calendar 阳水狗年
(male Water-Dog)
−351 or −732 or −1504
     to 
阴水猪年
(female Water-Pig)
−350 or −731 or −1503

Year 478 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Mamercus and Structus (or, less frequently, year 276 Ab urbe condita ). The denomination 478 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.

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Events

By place

Greece

  • Despite Spartan opposition, Athens works on refortifying and rebuilding after the Persian destruction of the city in 479.
  • The Delian League is established [1]
  • With the help of the Athenian statesman and general, Cimon, Aristides commands an Athenian fleet of 30 ships that the Spartan commander Pausanias leads to capture the Greek cities on Cyprus and Byzantium, taking them from the Persians and their Phoenician allies. [2]
  • While Pausanias is occupying Byzantium, his arrogance and his adoption of Persian clothing and manners offends the allies and raises suspicions of disloyalty. Pausanias is recalled to Sparta, where he is tried and acquitted of the charge of treason, but he is not restored to his command.

Sicily

China

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References

  1. Hammond, N. G. L. (1967). "The Origins and the Nature of the Athenian Alliance of 478/7 B. C." . The Journal of Hellenic Studies. 87: 41–61. doi:10.2307/627806. ISSN   0075-4269. JSTOR   627806.
  2. Balcer, Jack Martin (1997). "The Liberation of Ionia: 478 B.C." Historia: Zeitschrift für Alte Geschichte. 46 (3): 374–377. ISSN   0018-2311. JSTOR   4436477.
  3. "Xenophanes". Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved February 24, 2024.