485 BC

Year 485 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Cornelius and Vibulanus (or, less frequently, year 269 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 485 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.

485 BC in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	485 BC CDLXXXV BC
Ab urbe condita	269
Ancient Egypt era	XXVII dynasty, 41
- Pharaoh	Xerxes I of Persia, 1
Ancient Greek Olympiad (summer)	73rd Olympiad, year 4
Assyrian calendar	4266
Balinese saka calendar	N/A
Bengali calendar	−1078 – −1077
Berber calendar	466
Buddhist calendar	60
Burmese calendar	−1122
Byzantine calendar	5024–5025
Chinese calendar	乙卯年 (Wood Rabbit) 2213 or 2006     — to — 丙辰年 (Fire Dragon) 2214 or 2007
Coptic calendar	−768 – −767
Discordian calendar	682
Ethiopian calendar	−492 – −491
Hebrew calendar	3276–3277
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	−428 – −427
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	2616–2617
Holocene calendar	9516
Iranian calendar	1106 BP – 1105 BP
Islamic calendar	1140 BH – 1139 BH
Javanese calendar	N/A
Julian calendar	N/A
Korean calendar	1849
Minguo calendar	2396 before ROC 民前2396年
Nanakshahi calendar	−1952
Thai solar calendar	58–59
Tibetan calendar	ཤིང་མོ་ཡོས་ལོ་ (female Wood-Hare) −358 or −739 or −1511     — to — མེ་ཕོ་འབྲུག་ལོ་ (male Fire-Dragon) −357 or −738 or −1510

Events

By place

Persian Empire

• Xerxes I is just beginning his reign after the death of his father Darius the Great in 486 BC.^[1] During this time the Persian empire extends as far west as Macedonia and Libya and as far east as the Hyphasis (Beas) River; it stretches to the Caucasus Mountains and the Aral Sea in the north and to the Persian Gulf and the Arabian Desert in the south.

Sicily

• Gelo, the tyrant of Gela, takes advantage of an appeal by the descendants of the first colonist of Syracuse, the Gamoroi, who had held power until they were expelled by the Killichiroi, the lower class of the city. He makes himself master of that city, leaving his brother Hieron to control Gela.

Roman Republic

• Three times Roman consul Spurius Cassius Vecellinus is tried, condemned and executed for high treason.
• The consul Quintus Fabius Vibulanus defeated the Volsci and Aequi in battle, but incurred the anger of the plebs by lodging the spoils of victory with the publicum.

Births

• Herodotus, Greek historian, is estimated to be born this year.^[2]
• Some sources place the birth of Euripides in this year, though the more traditional date is 480.^[3]

Deaths

• Spurius Cassius Vecellinus, three times Roman consul.