470 BC

Year 470 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Potitus and Mamercus (or, less frequently, year 284 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 470 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.

470 BC in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	470 BC CDLXX BC
Ab urbe condita	284
Ancient Egypt era	XXVII dynasty, 56
- Pharaoh	Xerxes I of Persia, 16
Ancient Greek Olympiad (summer)	77th Olympiad, year 3
Assyrian calendar	4281
Balinese saka calendar	N/A
Bengali calendar	−1063 – −1062
Berber calendar	481
Buddhist calendar	75
Burmese calendar	−1107
Byzantine calendar	5039–5040
Chinese calendar	庚午年 (Metal Horse) 2228 or 2021     — to — 辛未年 (Metal Goat) 2229 or 2022
Coptic calendar	−753 – −752
Discordian calendar	697
Ethiopian calendar	−477 – −476
Hebrew calendar	3291–3292
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	−413 – −412
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	2631–2632
Holocene calendar	9531
Iranian calendar	1091 BP – 1090 BP
Islamic calendar	1125 BH – 1123 BH
Javanese calendar	N/A
Julian calendar	N/A
Korean calendar	1864
Minguo calendar	2381 before ROC 民前2381年
Nanakshahi calendar	−1937
Thai solar calendar	73–74
Tibetan calendar	ལྕགས་ཕོ་རྟ་ལོ་ (male Iron-Horse) −343 or −724 or −1496     — to — ལྕགས་མོ་ལུག་ལོ་ (female Iron-Sheep) −342 or −723 or −1495

A bust of Socrates (c. 470–399 BC)

Events

By place

Greece

• Suspected of plotting to seize power in Sparta by instigating a helot uprising, Pausanias takes refuge in the Temple of Athena of the Brazen House to escape arrest. The sanctuary is respected, but the Spartans wall in the sanctuary and starve Pausanias to death.

By topic

Architecture

• The construction of the Temple of Zeus, begins at Olympia, Greece. This includes the relief sculpture (of which fragments now remain at the Archaeological Museum of Olympia) of Apollo with battling Lapiths and centaurs (approximate date).

Art

• The Charioteer, in the Sanctuary of Apollo, Delphi, is created in commemoration of a victory in the Pythian Games of 478 or 474 BC (approximate date). It is now preserved at the Delphi Archaeological Museum.
• Pan Painter makes a "bell krater" (an earthenware piece that is used to mix water and wine) which has a red-figure decoration of Artemis slaying Actaeon. It is now preserved at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston (approximate date).

Births

• Aspasia of Miletus, mistress of Pericles of Athens (d. c. 400 BC)
• Hippocrates of Chios, Greek mathematician (d. c. 410 BC)
• Mozi (or Mo Tzu), Chinese philosopher (d. c. 391)
• Socrates, Greek philosopher (d. c. 399 BC)^[1]

Deaths

• Pausanias, Spartan commander during the Greco-Persian Wars