484 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: 487 BC 486 BC 485 BC – 484 BC – 483 BC 482 BC 481 BC

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

484 BC in other calendars Gregorian calendar 484 BC Ab urbe condita 270 Armenian calendar N/A Bahá'í calendar -2327 – -2326 Bengali calendar -1076 Berber calendar 467 Buddhist calendar 61 Burmese calendar -1121 Byzantine calendar 5025 – 5026 Chinese calendar [[Sexagenary cycle|]]年 (2153/2213) — to — [[Sexagenary cycle|]]年 (2154/2214) Coptic calendar -767 – -766 Ethiopian calendar -491 – -490 Hebrew calendar 3277 – 3278 Hindu calendars  - Bikram Samwat -427 – -426  - Shaka Samvat N/A  - Kali Yuga 2618 – 2619 Holocene calendar 9517 Iranian calendar 1105 BP – 1104 BP Islamic calendar 1139 BH – 1138 BH Japanese calendar Korean calendar 1850 Thai solar calendar 60

Year 484 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Mamercus and Vibulanus (or, less frequently, year 270 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 484 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 quells the Egyptian revolt against Persian rule. He ravages the Delta region in the process and then appoints his brother Achaemenes satrap (governor) of Egypt.
• Despite an attempt at rebellion, the land and city of Babylon remains solidly under Persian rule.

Greece

• The Athenian general and statesman, Xanthippus, is ostracised.

By topic

Literature

• The Athenian playwright, Aeschylus, wins first prize in drama at the Dionysia festival.

Births

• Herodotus of Halicarnassus, Greek historian (approximate date) (d. c. 425 BC)
• Achaeus of Eretria, Greek tragedian

Deaths

• Wu Zixu, political advisor from Chu who has been employed at the court of the State of Wu during the reign of King Helü of Wu; all Chinese people with the surname Wu consider him their first ancestor (b. 526 BC)