483 BC

Millennium: 1st millennium BC Centuries: 6th century BC – 5th century BC – 4th century BC Decades: 510s BC  500s BC  490s BC  – 480s BC –  470s BC  460s BC  450s BC Years: 486 BC 485 BC 484 BC – 483 BC – 482 BC 481 BC 480 BC

483 BC by topic Politics State leaders – Sovereign states Birth and death categories Births – Deaths Establishments and disestablishments categories Establishments – Disestablishments

483 BC in other calendars Gregorian calendar 483 BC Ab urbe condita 271 Armenian calendar N/A Bahá'í calendar -2326 – -2325 Bengali calendar -1075 Berber calendar 468 Buddhist calendar 62 Burmese calendar -1120 Byzantine calendar 5026 – 5027 Chinese calendar [[Sexagenary cycle|]]年 (2154/2214) — to — [[Sexagenary cycle|]]年 (2155/2215) Coptic calendar -766 – -765 Ethiopian calendar -490 – -489 Hebrew calendar 3278 – 3279 Hindu calendars  - Bikram Samwat -426 – -425  - Shaka Samvat N/A  - Kali Yuga 2619 – 2620 Holocene calendar 9518 Iranian calendar 1104 BP – 1103 BP Islamic calendar 1138 BH – 1137 BH Japanese calendar Korean calendar 1851 Thai solar calendar 61

Year 483 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Vibulanus and Potitus (or, less frequently, year 271 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 483 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

• Xerxes I of Persia is encouraged by his cousin and brother-in-law, Mardonius, supported by a strong party of exiled Greeks, to take revenge for the defeat that Darius I suffered at the hands of the Greeks at Marathon in 490 BC. In response, Xerxes prepares for a major expedition to crush the Greeks. To avoid a repeat of the significant losses to the Persian fleet that occurred in 492 BC, Xerxes has a canal cut through the promontory of Mount Athos.

Greece

• The Athenian archon Themistocles realises that the Greeks need to be able to beat the Persians at sea. To carry out this strategy, however, Athens needs far more warships (that is to say the newly developed, specialised triremes) than the 70 it has. Themistocles is initially opposed by other Athenian leaders. However, when the state-owned silver mines at Laurium become the site of a rich strike, Themistocles persuades the assembly, instead of "declaring a dividend," to devote the whole surplus to increasing the navy to a proposed 200 ships.

India

• The Buddhist relics are divided into 8 portions and placed in 8 reliquaries. Each reliquary is then encased in its own burial mound, called stupa. King Ashoka opens the original 8 stupas and divides their relics among many more stupas, probably including the one at Sanchi (approximate date).

Sicily

• Gelo, the tyrant of Syracuse conquers the nearby Sicilian cities of Euboea and Megara Hyblaea, selling their common people into slavery and bringing their oligarchs to Syracuse.

Births

Deaths

• May—Gautama Buddha, Indian prince, founder of Buddhism