475 BC

Year 475 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. In the Roman Republic, it was known as year 279 Ab urbe condita. The denomination 475 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.

475 BC in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	475 BC CDLXXV BC
Ab urbe condita	279
Ancient Egypt era	XXVII dynasty, 51
- Pharaoh	Xerxes I of Persia, 11
Ancient Greek Olympiad (summer)	76th Olympiad, year 2
Assyrian calendar	4276
Balinese saka calendar	N/A
Bengali calendar	−1068 – −1067
Berber calendar	476
Buddhist calendar	70
Burmese calendar	−1112
Byzantine calendar	5034–5035
Chinese calendar	乙丑年 (Wood Ox) 2223 or 2016     — to — 丙寅年 (Fire Tiger) 2224 or 2017
Coptic calendar	−758 – −757
Discordian calendar	692
Ethiopian calendar	−482 – −481
Hebrew calendar	3286–3287
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	−418 – −417
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	2626–2627
Holocene calendar	9526
Iranian calendar	1096 BP – 1095 BP
Islamic calendar	1130 BH – 1129 BH
Javanese calendar	N/A
Julian calendar	N/A
Korean calendar	1859
Minguo calendar	2386 before ROC 民前2386年
Nanakshahi calendar	−1942
Thai solar calendar	68–69
Tibetan calendar	ཤིང་མོ་གླང་ལོ་ (female Wood-Ox) −348 or −729 or −1501     — to — མེ་ཕོ་སྟག་ལོ་ (male Fire-Tiger) −347 or −728 or −1500

Events

By place

Greece

• Cimon leads an Athenian attack on the island of Skyros and expels the indigenous inhabitants who are regarded as pirates.^[1]
• The first recorded eruption of Mount Etna occurs.^[2]

China

• Zhou Yuan Wang becomes king of the Zhou dynasty.

By topic

Arts

• The painter Polygnotus of Thasos begins his work (approximate date).

Births

• Philolaus, Greek philosopher (approximate year)^[3]

Deaths

• Duke Ding of Jin, ruler of Jin in ancient China (r. 511–475 BC)
• Atossa, Achaemenid queen (approximate date)