508 BC

Millennium:	1st millennium BC
Centuries:	7th century BC – 6th century BC – 5th century BC
Decades:	530s BC  520s BC  510s BC  – 500s BC –  490s BC  480s BC  470s BC
Years:	511 BC 510 BC 509 BC – 508 BC – 507 BC 506 BC 505 BC

508 BC in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	508 BC DVII BC
Ab urbe condita	246
Ancient Egypt era	XXVII dynasty, 18
- Pharaoh	Darius I of Persia, 14
Ancient Greek era	68th Olympiad (victor)¹
Assyrian calendar	4243
Bengali calendar	−1100
Berber calendar	443
Buddhist calendar	37
Burmese calendar	−1145
Byzantine calendar	5001–5002
Chinese calendar	壬辰年 (Water Dragon) 2189 or 2129     — to — 癸巳年 (Water Snake) 2190 or 2130
Coptic calendar	−791 – −790
Discordian calendar	659
Ethiopian calendar	−515 – −514
Hebrew calendar	3253–3254
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	−451 – −450
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	2594–2595
Holocene calendar	9493
Iranian calendar	1129 BP – 1128 BP
Islamic calendar	1164 BH – 1163 BH
Julian calendar	N/A
Korean calendar	1826
Minguo calendar	2419 before ROC 民前2419年
Thai solar calendar	35–36

The year 508 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. In the Roman Empire it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Poplicola and Tricipitinus (or, less frequently, year 246 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 508 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

• Athenian democracy in the city of Athens is established under Cleisthenes following the tyranny of Hippias.

Italy

• A war is fought between Rome and Clusium.
• Clusium fights a war with Aricia.
• The office of pontifex maximus is created in Rome.