500 BC Chr.
Portal history | Portal Biographies | Current events | Annual calendar
◄ |
6th century BC Chr. |
5th century BC Chr. |
4th century BC Chr. |
►
◄ | 520 BC Chr. | 510 BC Chr. | 500 BC Chr. | 490s BC Chr. |
480s BC Chr. |
►
◄◄ | ◄ | 503 BC Chr. | 502 BC Chr. | 501 BC Chr. | 500 BC Chr. |
499 BC Chr. |
498 BC Chr. |
497 BC Chr. |
► |
►►
| 500 BC Chr. | |
|---|---|
 The Ionian uprising against the Persian Empire begins. |
|
| 500 BC In other calendars | |
| Buddhist calendar | 44/45 (southern Buddhism); 43/44 (alternative calculation according to Buddha's Parinirvana ) |
| Chinese calendar | 36th (37th) cycle , year of the metal-ox辛丑 ( at the beginning of the year metal-rat 庚子) |
| Greek calendar | 4th year of the 69th / 1st year of the 70th Olympiad |
| Jewish calendar | 3261/62 |
| Roman calendar | from urbe condita CCLIV (254) |
| Ongoing events | |
| 27th Dynasty (Persian rule) (since 525 BC) during the Late Period in Egypt (since 664 BC) | |
Attic vase painting in Greece:
|
|
| Iron Age III in Israel (since 587 BC) | |
| Hallstatt period HaD in Europe (since 650 BC) | |
| Ancient Greece : The classical age replaces the archaic (since approx. 750 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) | |
| La Venta period among the Olmecs in Mesoamerica (since approx. 1500 BC) | |
On the initiative of Aristagoras , the tyrant of Miletus , who fears the punishment for a failed campaign, begins in the year 500 BC. Chr. The Ionian Revolt of the Greek colonies in Asia Minor against the rule of the Persians . The uprising is very successful at first and spreads like a wildfire. Only in the year 494 BC Chr. Which can Achaemenid under Darius I finally quell the rebellion. These events then lead to the Persian Wars against the Greek motherland.
Events
Politics and world events
Persian Empire / Ionian Uprising
The Greco- Ionian poleis in Asia Minor have been part of the Persian Achaemenid Empire for almost half a century . Although tributary, the cities were able to maintain a certain independence and extensive economic autonomy. The background for this is the Persian principles of leaving the areas of the empire as political self-government as possible and leaving the cultural and religious life of the peoples untouched. As in all 20 satrapies, the Persian " tyranny " presents itself as a personal-feudal relationship, according to which the satrap as governor of Persia chooses local nobles as stewards who exercise power and collect the tributes.
Aristagoras , the tyrant of Miletus who was just installed by the Persian great king Dareios I , persuades Artaphernes , the satrap of Sardis , to campaign against Naxos , which has renounced the Persian Achaemenid Empire . After Artaphernes received the approval of Darius for this venture, he equips a fleet of 200 triremes , and appoints his cousin Megabates to command them . Despite a four-month siege, however, the Persians fail to take Naxos, mainly because Megabates and Aristagoras quarrel among themselves. It is said that Megabates is even secretly helping the people of Naxos defend the island.
Aristagoras, who fears punishment from the Persian great king after his return home, seeks allies in the other Greek cities in order to spark a revolt against the Persian Empire . His efforts fall on fertile ground in numerous pole ice that are currently being hit by an economic and trade crisis. The Ionian Rebellion begins. Far from the political center of the Persian Empire, the uprising was very successful in the first year and spread like a wildfire.
Italian mainland
According to legend, Servius Sulpicius Camerinus Cornutus and Manius Tullius Longus were consuls of the early Roman Republic .
Around 500 BC . Which are BC Osker by the Etruscans subjected reached their territory at the time of its expansion.
With the arrival of the Etruscans around 500 BC The town of Marzabotto in the Apennines was developed into a town.
China
During the spring and autumn annals , the political rise of K'ung-fu-tzu , known in Europe as Confucius, begins . The philosopher becomes around 500 BC. Under the rule of Jī Sòng first minister of construction, then minister of justice in the Chinese state of Lu .
India / Sri Lanka
Around 500 BC Indo-Aryan settlers from northern India, the later Sinhalese , immigrate to Sri Lanka . The immigrants call themselves Siṃha Vaṃsa (German about tribe of lions ). That is why the lion later becomes the national symbol of the Sinhalese.
science and technology
The Greek mathematician Hippasus of Metapontium leads around 500 BC. BC presumably performed his proof of the incommensurability of certain lines and diagonals on the basis of the Euclidean algorithm .
Culture
Greek vase painting
The Greek vase painter Euphronios , previously active in the pottery workshop of Euxitheos , took over around 500 BC. Chr. His own pottery, in which he mainly creates bowls in the next few years. Among other things, he trains the artist known as the antiphon painter and possibly also the Sosias painter . Also Onesimos one of his students. Euphronios' greatest artistic competitor is the vase painter Euthymides . All these artists are counted among the pioneering group of Attic vase painting .
The Eucharides Painter changes around 500 BC. From black-figure to red-figure vase painting . He is the first red-figure style vase painter to paint Panathenaic price amphoras .
Other cultural events around the turn of the century
Around 500 BC In ancient Greece, the archaic is replaced by the classical period .
In Europe, from around 500 BC Chr. Only written from left to right instead of in the bus trophy as before .
From 500 BC In the Hebrew alphabet there is evidence of the square script .
Around 500 BC The beginning of the Nok culture in Africa lies in the area of today's Nigeria. The elliptical to triangular eyes, the pupils of which are indicated by a recess, are characteristic of the stylized depictions of animals and humans made during this period. Individual features such as beards, jewelry and extravagant hairstyles or headgear emphasize the artistic execution of the figures.
Around 500 BC The Iron Age Sa-Huynh culture , an urnfield culture , begins in South and Central Vietnam . The urns are lidded and contain a number of objects, such as specific metal weapons, bronze mirrors and gold jewelry. Many of the additions are ritually broken, while mostly only pieces of jewelry remain intact. The style of these artefacts distinguishes the Sa-Huynh from the approximately contemporary Dong-Son culture in North Vietnam, although both cultures maintain close trade ties.
For a grave in Pazyryktal in southern Siberia in Outer Mongolia is Pazyryks carpet , the oldest known knotted carpet made.
society
Between 500 and 450 BC Chr. , The town charter of Gortyn on the island of Crete put down in writing on 42 stone blocks. In terms of content, this longest extant Greek inscription is more of a kind of amendment to older laws than a new codification . Regulations from family law, inheritance law, property law, criminal law and procedural law are codified. The text is written in an old Doric dialect and consists of twelve columns with 53 to 55 lines each, the lines are in the bustrophedon .
Born
- around 500 BC Chr .: Callias II. , Athenian statesman and diplomat, was considered the richest Athenian of his time († 432 BC )
- around 500 BC Chr .: Panainos , Greek / Athenian painter
Died
- around 500 BC BC: Aryandes , Persian satrap of Egypt
- around 500 BC Chr .: Yan Ying , Chinese politician and statesman in Qi state (* around 589 BC )
