485 BC

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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
Balinese saka calendar N/A
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
Tibetan calendar 阴木兔年
(female Wood-Rabbit)
−358 or −739 or −1511
     to 
阳火龙年
(male Fire-Dragon)
−357 or −738 or −1510

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.

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  • 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. He makes himself master of that city, leaving his brother Hieron to control Gela.

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