475 BC

Millennium:	1st millennium BC
Centuries:	6th century BC – 5th century BC – 4th century BC
Decades:	500s BC  490s BC  480s BC  – 470s BC –  460s BC  450s BC  440s BC
Years:	478 BC 477 BC 476 BC – 475 BC – 474 BC 473 BC 472 BC

475 BC in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	475 BC CDLXXIV BC
Ab urbe condita	279
Ancient Egypt era	XXVII dynasty, 51
- Pharaoh	Xerxes I of Persia, 11
Ancient Greek era	76th Olympiad, year 2
Assyrian calendar	4276
Bengali calendar	−1067
Berber calendar	476
Buddhist calendar	70
Burmese calendar	−1112
Byzantine calendar	5034–5035
Chinese calendar	乙丑年 (Wood Ox) 2222 or 2162     — to — 丙寅年 (Fire Tiger) 2223 or 2163
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	2627–2628
Holocene calendar	9526
Iranian calendar	1096 BP – 1095 BP
Islamic calendar	1130 BH – 1129 BH
Julian calendar	N/A
Korean calendar	1859
Minguo calendar	2386 before ROC 民前2386年
Thai solar calendar	68–69

Year 475 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Poplicola and Rutilus (or, less frequently, 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.

Events

By place

Greece

• Cimon leads an Athenian attack on the island of Skyros and expels the indigenous inhabitants who are regarded as pirates.
• The first recorded eruption of Mt. Etna.

China

• Zhou Yuan Wang becomes King of the Zhou Dynasty.

By topic

Arts

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

Deaths

• Heraclitus of Ephesus, Greek philosopher (b. c. 535 BC)