486 BC Chr.

486 BC Chr.
Xerxes I becomes ruler of the Persian Achaemenid Empire .
486 BC Chr. In other calendars
Buddhist calendar	58/59 (southern Buddhism); 57/58 (alternative calculation according to Buddha's Parinirvana )
Chinese calendar	36th (37th) cycle , year of the wooden hare乙卯 ( at the beginning of the year wooden tiger 甲寅)
Greek calendar	2nd / 3rd Year of the 73rd Olympiad
Jewish calendar	3275/76
Roman calendar	from urbe condita CCLXVIII (268)
Ongoing events
Persian Wars against Greece (since 500 BC)
Nok culture in Africa (since around 500 BC)
Sa Huynh culture in Central and South Vietnam (since around 500 BC)
27th Dynasty (Persian rule) (since 525 BC) during the Late Period in Egypt (since 664 BC)
Attic vase painting in Greece: Red-figure vase painting (since 530 BC) Black-figure vase painting (since 630 BC)
Iron Age III in Israel (since 587 BC)
Hallstatt period HaD in Europe (since 650 BC)
Eastern Zhou dynasty / period of spring and autumn annals in China (since 770/722 BC)
Dong-Son culture in northern Vietnam and southern China (since around 800 BC)
Middle Preclassic period among the Maya (since approx. 900 BC)
Antiquity in the Mediterranean region (since approx. 1200/800 BC) Classical era in Greece (since approx. 500 BC) Strict style (since approx. 490 BC )
La Venta period among the Olmecs in Mesoamerica (since approx. 1500 BC)

The year 486 BC BC brings a change of throne in the Persian Empire . Xerxes I succeeds his late father Darius I as Great King of the Achaemenid Empire . He sees himself with an uprising since 525 BC. Chr. To Persia belonging to Egypt under the leadership of . Psammetich IV faced.

Events

Ostracon of Megacles, son of Hippocrates

487/486 BC Chr .: Megakles from the Alkmaioniden family is banished from Athens by Ostrakismos .

During his third consulate draws Spurius Cassius Viscellinus with his counterpart Proculus Verginius against the neighboring tribes of the Volsci and Hernici to battle and defeat them. The Roman military tribune Opiter Verginius Tricostus is believed to be killed in this battle .
After their defeat, the hernians join the Roman-Latin League.
At the end of his consulate, Spurius Cassius Vecellinus is charged with alleged domestic political offenses, about the nature of which historians disagree.

Dareios I (Greek vase painting)

The Persian great king Dareios I dies. He is succeeded as ruler of the Achaemenid Empire by his son Xerxes I from Darius' marriage to Atossa , although there are older brothers from a previous marriage.
Egypt tries to break away from the Persian Empire under Psammetich IV .

The Han Canal is being built on the Yangtze River in China as the first section of what will later become the Imperial Canal .

The Athenian Megakles wins the chariot race with the team of four at the Pythian Games in Delphi.

around 486 BC Chr .: Opiter Verginius Tricostus , Roman consul and military tribune

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