485 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: 488 BC 487 BC 486 BC – 485 BC – 484 BC 483 BC 482 BC

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

485 BC in other calendars Gregorian calendar 485 BC Ab urbe condita 269 Armenian calendar N/A Bahá'í calendar -2328 – -2327 Bengali calendar -1077 Berber calendar 466 Buddhist calendar 60 Burmese calendar -1122 Byzantine calendar 5024 – 5025 Chinese calendar [[Sexagenary cycle|]]年 (2152/2212) — to — [[Sexagenary cycle|]]年 (2153/2213) Coptic calendar -768 – -767 Ethiopian calendar -492 – -491 Hebrew calendar 3276 – 3277 Hindu calendars  - Bikram Samwat -428 – -427  - Shaka Samvat N/A  - Kali Yuga 2617 – 2618 Holocene calendar 9516 Iranian calendar 1106 BP – 1105 BP Islamic calendar 1140 BH – 1139 BH Japanese calendar Korean calendar 1849 Thai solar calendar 59

Year 485 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Cornelius and Vibulanus (or, less frequently, year 269 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 485 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

• Darius I, one of the greatest rulers of the Achaemenid dynasty of Persia, dies and is succeeded by his son, Xerxes I. During this time the Persian empire extends as far west as Macedonia and Libya and as far east as the Hyphasis (Beas) River; it stretches to the Caucasus Mountains and the Aral Sea in the north and to the Persian Gulf and the Arabian Desert in the south.

Sicily

• Gelo, the tyrant of Gela, takes advantage of an appeal by the descendants of the first colonist of Syracuse, the Gamoroi, who had held power until they were expelled by the Killichiroi, the lower class of the city, and makes himself master of that city, leaving his brother Hieron to control Gela.

Births

Deaths

• Darius I, king of Persia (b. c. 549 BC)