498 BC Chr.
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| 498 BC In other calendars | |
| Buddhist calendar | 46/47 (southern Buddhism); 45/46 (alternative calculation according to Buddha's Parinirvana ) |
| Chinese calendar | 36th (37th) cycle , year of the water hare癸卯 ( at the beginning of the year water tiger 壬寅) |
| Greek calendar | 2nd / 3rd Year of the 70th Olympiad |
| Jewish calendar | 3263/64 |
| Roman calendar | from urbe condita CCLVI (256) |
| Ongoing events | |
| Ionic uprising against the Persian Empire (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:
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| 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) | |
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Antiquity in the Mediterranean region (since approx. 1200/800 BC)
Classical Age in Greece (since around 500 BC) |
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| La Venta period among the Olmecs in Mesoamerica (since approx. 1500 BC) | |
Around the year 498 BC Chr. , The Roman Republic in the first Latinerkrieg involved. In the meantime, the Ionian uprising against the Persian Empire continues in Asia Minor .
Events
Roman Republic
According to legend, Titus Larcius from the gens larcia is consul of the early Roman Republic for the second time . His colleague this year is Quintus Cloelius Siculus . Aulus Postumius Albus Regillensis has been dictator since last year .
Around 498 BC The republic got into a war with the federation of Latin cities , consisting of about 30 cities, villages and tribes on the Apennine peninsula, which is probably about supremacy in the city and the region. The acts of war essentially consist of mutual raids. The actual cause that led to the outbreak of open hostilities has not been recorded.
Greece
Miltiades the Younger conquered the island of Lemnos in the course of the Ionian uprising against the Persian Empire of the Achaemenids and brought it under the rule of Athens .
Greek colonies in Sicily
After the murder of his brother Kleandros after a brief civil war, Hippocrates succeeds him as the tyrant of Gela in Sicily . He begins with the expansion of the army, especially the mounted troops, where he takes in both Greeks and Sikelers . In the following years he undertook several conquest campaigns in the area and conquered, among others, Naxos , Zankle and Leontinoi .
Macedonia
Alexander I , an avowed opponent of the Persian Empire is after the death of his father Amyntas I. 498 King of Macedonia . In the same year, the Persian nobleman Bubares was sent to the Macedonian court to settle a diplomatic conflict: Alexander was still, as crown prince, responsible for the murder of several members of a Persian delegation a few years earlier. King Alexandros is accommodating to the Persian commitment and marries his sister Gygaia to Bubares.
China
During the spring and autumn annals , the philosopher and former Minister of Justice Confucius becomes Deputy Chancellor in the Chinese state of Lu .