495 BC

Millennium:	1st millennium BC
Centuries:	6th century BC – 5th century BC – 4th century BC
Decades:	520s BC  510s BC  500s BC  – 490s BC –  480s BC  470s BC  460s BC
Years:	498 BC 497 BC 496 BC – 495 BC – 494 BC 493 BC 492 BC

495 BC by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

495 BC in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	495 BC
Ab urbe condita	259
Armenian calendar	N/A
Assyrian calendar	4256
Bahá'í calendar	-2338–-2337
Bengali calendar	-1087
Berber calendar	456
English Regnal year	N/A
Buddhist calendar	50
Burmese calendar	-1132
Byzantine calendar	5014–5015
Chinese calendar	乙巳年 (2142/2202) — to — 丙午年 (2143/2203)
Coptic calendar	-778–-777
Ethiopian calendar	-502–-501
Hebrew calendar	3266–3267
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	-438–-437
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	2607–2608
Holocene calendar	9506
Iranian calendar	1116 BP – 1115 BP
Islamic calendar	1150 BH – 1149 BH
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar	1839
Minguo calendar	2406 before ROC 民前2406年
Thai solar calendar	49

Year 495 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Sabinus and Priscus (or, less frequently, year 259 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 495 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

Roman Republic

• A temple is built on the Circus Maximus, between the Aventine and Palatine hills, in Rome, in honour of the god Mercury.

China

• King Fuchai of Wu ascends to the throne after his father, King Helü of Wu, reigning as the last king of Wu until 473 BC.

Births

• Pericles, Athenian politician (d. 429 BC)