493 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:	496 BC 495 BC 494 BC – 493 BC – 492 BC 491 BC 490 BC

493 BC in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	493 BC CDXCII BC
Ab urbe condita	261
Ancient Egypt era	XXVII dynasty, 33
- Pharaoh	Darius I of Persia, 29
Ancient Greek era	71st Olympiad, year 4
Assyrian calendar	4258
Bengali calendar	−1085
Berber calendar	458
Buddhist calendar	52
Burmese calendar	−1130
Byzantine calendar	5016–5017
Chinese calendar	丁未年 (Fire Goat) 2204 or 2144     — to — 戊申年 (Earth Monkey) 2205 or 2145
Coptic calendar	−776 – −775
Discordian calendar	674
Ethiopian calendar	−500 – −499
Hebrew calendar	3268–3269
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	−436 – −435
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	2609–2610
Holocene calendar	9508
Iranian calendar	1114 BP – 1113 BP
Islamic calendar	1148 BH – 1147 BH
Julian calendar	N/A
Korean calendar	1841
Minguo calendar	2404 before ROC 民前2404年
Thai solar calendar	50–51

Year 493 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Auruncus and Viscellinus (or, less frequently, year 261 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 493 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

Persian Empire

• A Phoenician-manned Persian fleet restores Persian control of Cyprus.

Greece

• The Athenian people elect Themistocles as archon, the chief judicial and civilian executive officer in Athens. He favours resistance against the Persians.
• Themistocles starts the construction of a fortified naval base at Piraeus, the port town of Athens.
• Among the refugees arriving from Ionia after the collapse of the Ionian Revolt is a chief named Miltiades, who has a fine reputation as a soldier. Themistocles makes him a general in the Athenian army.

Roman Republic

• The secession of the plebs concludes.
• The Roman army, led by Postumus Cominius Auruncus defeats the Volsci and the Romans capture the towns of Longula, Pollusca and Corioli. Gaius Marcius distinguishes himself in the battle for Corioli, and earns the cognomen Coriolanus.
• During his second consulate, the Roman consul Spurius Cassius Viscellinus concludes a treaty with the Latin League, the Foedus Cassianum, confirming Roman primacy in Latium.

By topic

Literature

• The Athenian poet Phrynicus produces a tragedy on the Fall of Miletus. The Athenian authorities ban the play from further production on the grounds of impiety.

Deaths

• Agrippa Menenius Lanatus, former Roman consul.