496 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:	499 BC 498 BC 497 BC – 496 BC – 495 BC 494 BC 493 BC

496 BC by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

496 BC in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	496 BC
Ab urbe condita	258
Armenian calendar	N/A
Assyrian calendar	4255
Bahá'í calendar	-2339–-2338
Bengali calendar	-1088
Berber calendar	455
English Regnal year	N/A
Buddhist calendar	49
Burmese calendar	-1133
Byzantine calendar	5013–5014
Chinese calendar	甲辰年 (2141/2201) — to — 乙巳年 (2142/2202)
Coptic calendar	-779–-778
Ethiopian calendar	-503–-502
Hebrew calendar	3265–3266
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	-439–-438
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	2606–2607
Holocene calendar	9505
Iranian calendar	1117 BP – 1116 BP
Islamic calendar	1151 BH – 1150 BH
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar	1838
Minguo calendar	2407 before ROC 民前2407年
Thai solar calendar	48

Year 496 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Albus and Tricostus (or, less frequently, year 258 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 496 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

• Hipparchos, son of Charmos (a relative of the 6th century BC tyrant Peisistratos), wins the archonship of Athens as leader of the peace party which argues that resistance against the Persians is useless.

Roman Republic

• The former Etruscan King of Rome, Tarquinius Superbus, who has been exiled by the Romans in 508 BC, and his ally Lars Porsena, the King of Clusium, are defeated by the new Roman Republic army in the Battle of Lake Regillus, near Frascati. The outcome of this battle establishes Roman supremacy over the Latins.
• Carthage and Rome make a treaty whereby Roman ships undertake not to trade to the west of Carthage while the Carthaginians undertake not to interfere in Latin politics.

China

• King Goujian of Yue defeats and banishes King Fuchai of Wu, gaining a temporary hegemony in ancient China during the Spring and Autumn Period.

Births

• Sophocles, Athenian dramatist and statesman (d. 406 BC)

Deaths

• Sun Tzu, military philosopher and author of The Art of War (most likely a colloquial date) (b. 544 BC)
• King Helü of Wu, king of the Chinese State of Wu
• Lucius Tarquinius Superbus, the exiled last King of Rome