474 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:	477 BC 476 BC 475 BC – 474 BC – 473 BC 472 BC 471 BC

474 BC by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

474 BC in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	474 BC
Ab urbe condita	280
Armenian calendar	N/A
Assyrian calendar	4277
Bahá'í calendar	-2317–-2316
Bengali calendar	-1066
Berber calendar	477
English Regnal year	N/A
Buddhist calendar	71
Burmese calendar	-1111
Byzantine calendar	5035–5036
Chinese calendar	丙寅年 (2163/2223) — to — 丁卯年 (2164/2224)
Coptic calendar	-757–-756
Ethiopian calendar	-481–-480
Hebrew calendar	3287–3288
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	-417–-416
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	2628–2629
Holocene calendar	9527
Iranian calendar	1095 BP – 1094 BP
Islamic calendar	1129 BH – 1128 BH
Japanese calendar
Julian calendar
Korean calendar	1860
Minguo calendar	2385 before ROC 民前2385年
Thai solar calendar	70

Year 474 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Medullinus and Vulso (or, less frequently, year 280 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 474 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

Italy

• Hiero I, tyrant of Sicily, allied with Aristodemus, the tyrant of Cumae, defeat the Etruscan navy in the Battle of Cumae as the Etruscans try to capture the Greek city of Cumae in Italy. This victory marks the end of the Etruscan aggression against the Greeks in southern Italy and saves the Greeks of Campania from Etruscan domination.
• Taranto signs an alliance with Rhegion, to counter the Messapii, Peuceti, and Lucanians, but the joint armies of the Tarentines and Rhegines are defeated near Kailìa (modern Ceglie Messapica).
• Hiero builds Castello Aragonese on the island of Ischia.

Persian Empire

• King Xerxes I of Persia issues a decree, as dictated by Mordecai upon the king's secretaries, giving the Jews in every city the authority to unite to defend their lives against their opponents in all of the 127 provinces of the Persian Empire, stretching from India to Ethiopia.

By topic

Literature

• The Greek poet Pindar moves to Thebes after two years at the Sicilian Court of Hiero I of Syracuse. While at Thebes, he composes lyric odes to celebrate triumphs in the Olympic Games and other athletic events.