472 BC

Millennium:	1st millennium BC
Centuries:	6th century BC – 5th century BC – 4th century BC
Decades:	500s BC  490s BC  480s BC  – 470s BC –  460s BC  450s BC  440s BC
Years:	475 BC 474 BC 473 BC – 472 BC – 471 BC 470 BC 469 BC

472 BC by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

472 BC in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	472 BC
Ab urbe condita	282
Armenian calendar	N/A
Assyrian calendar	4279
Bahá'í calendar	-2315–-2314
Bengali calendar	-1064
Berber calendar	479
English Regnal year	N/A
Buddhist calendar	73
Burmese calendar	-1109
Byzantine calendar	5037–5038
Chinese calendar	戊辰年 (2165/2225) — to — 己巳年 (2166/2226)
Coptic calendar	-755–-754
Ethiopian calendar	-479–-478
Hebrew calendar	3289–3290
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	-415–-414
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	2630–2631
Holocene calendar	9529
Iranian calendar	1093 BP – 1092 BP
Islamic calendar	1127 BH – 1126 BH
Japanese calendar
Julian calendar
Korean calendar	1862
Minguo calendar	2383 before ROC 民前2383年
Thai solar calendar	72

Year 472 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Rufus and Fusus (or, less frequently, year 282 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 472 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.

Events

By place

Greece

• Carystus in Euboea is forced to join the Delian League after the Athenians attack the city (approximate date).

By topic

Literature

• The tragedy The Persians is produced by Aeschylus. It is the oldest surviving classical Greek play.