516 BC

516 BC in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	516 BC DXVI BC
Ab urbe condita	238
Ancient Egypt era	XXVII dynasty, 10
- Pharaoh	Darius I of Persia, 6
Ancient Greek Olympiad (summer)	66th Olympiad (victor )¹
Assyrian calendar	4235
Balinese saka calendar	N/A
Bengali calendar	−1109 – −1108
Berber calendar	435
Buddhist calendar	29
Burmese calendar	−1153
Byzantine calendar	4993–4994
Chinese calendar	甲申年 (Wood  Monkey) 2182 or 1975     — to — 乙酉年 (Wood  Rooster) 2183 or 1976
Coptic calendar	−799 – −798
Discordian calendar	651
Ethiopian calendar	−523 – −522
Hebrew calendar	3245–3246
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	−459 – −458
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	2585–2586
Holocene calendar	9485
Iranian calendar	1137 BP – 1136 BP
Islamic calendar	1172 BH – 1171 BH
Javanese calendar	N/A
Julian calendar	N/A
Korean calendar	1818
Minguo calendar	2427 before ROC 民前2427年
Nanakshahi calendar	−1983
Thai solar calendar	27–28
Tibetan calendar	ཤིང་ཕོ་སྤྲེ་ལོ་ (male Wood-Monkey) −389 or −770 or −1542     — to — ཤིང་མོ་བྱ་ལོ་ (female Wood-Bird) −388 or −769 or −1541

The year 516 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. In the Roman Empire, it was known as year 238 Ab urbe condita . The denomination 516 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. ^[1]

Events

By place

Greece

• Cleomenes I of Sparta receives an embassy from Maeandrius of Samos asking for help to expel the tyrant Syloson, a puppet of the Persian Empire, which is at the time subjugating the city-states of the eastern Aegean Sea. ^[2]

India

• The Persian king Darius I occupies Punjab (approximate date). ^[3]

Deaths

• King Ping of Chu, King of the state of Chu from 528 to 516 BC ^[4]

References

1. Bickerman, E. J. (1980). Chronology of the Ancient World (2nd ed.). Ithaca: Cornell University Press. p. 137. ISBN   978-0-8014-1282-0.
2. Herodotus, Histories , 3.148.
3. Herodotus, Histories , 4.44.
4. Sima Qian, Shiji , ch. 40, "Hereditary House of Chu".