499 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:	502 BC 501 BC 500 BC – 499 BC – 498 BC 497 BC 496 BC

499 BC in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	499 BC CDXCVIII BC
Ab urbe condita	255
Ancient Egypt era	XXVII dynasty, 27
- Pharaoh	Darius I of Persia, 23
Ancient Greek era	70th Olympiad, year 2
Assyrian calendar	4252
Bengali calendar	−1091
Berber calendar	452
Buddhist calendar	46
Burmese calendar	−1136
Byzantine calendar	5010–5011
Chinese calendar	辛丑年 (Metal Ox) 2198 or 2138     — to — 壬寅年 (Water Tiger) 2199 or 2139
Coptic calendar	−782 – −781
Discordian calendar	668
Ethiopian calendar	−506 – −505
Hebrew calendar	3262–3263
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	−442 – −441
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	2603–2604
Holocene calendar	9502
Iranian calendar	1120 BP – 1119 BP
Islamic calendar	1154 BH – 1153 BH
Julian calendar	N/A
Korean calendar	1835
Minguo calendar	2410 before ROC 民前2410年
Thai solar calendar	44–45

The Ionian Revolt

Year 499 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. In the Roman Empire it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Aebutius and Cicurinus (or, less frequently, year 255 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 499 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

• After a failed attack on the rebellious island of Naxos in 502 BC (on behalf of the Persians), Aristagoras, to save himself from the wrath of Persia, plans a revolt with the Milesians and the other Ionians. With the encouragement of Histiaeus (his father-in-law and former tyrant of Miletus), Aristagoras, governor of Miletus, induces the Ionian cities of Asia Minor to revolt against Persia, thus instigating the Ionian Revolt and beginning the Greco-Persian Wars between Greece and Persia. The pro-Persian tyrant of Mytilene is stoned to death.
• Aristagoras seeks help with the revolt against the Persians from Cleomenes I, the King of Sparta, but the Spartans are unwilling to respond.
• Miltiades the Younger, the ruler of the Thracian Chersonese, which has been under Persian suzerainty since approximately 514 BC, joins the Ionian revolt. He seizes the islands of Lemnos and Imbros from the Persians.