492 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: 495 BC 494 BC 493 BC – 492 BC – 491 BC 490 BC 489 BC

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492 BC in other calendars Gregorian calendar 492 BC Ab urbe condita 262 Armenian calendar N/A Bahá'í calendar -2335 – -2334 Bengali calendar -1084 Berber calendar 459 Buddhist calendar 53 Burmese calendar -1129 Byzantine calendar 5017 – 5018 Chinese calendar [[Sexagenary cycle|]]年 (2145/2205) — to — [[Sexagenary cycle|]]年 (2146/2206) Coptic calendar -775 – -774 Ethiopian calendar -499 – -498 Hebrew calendar 3269 – 3270 Hindu calendars  - Bikram Samwat -435 – -434  - Shaka Samvat N/A  - Kali Yuga 2610 – 2611 Holocene calendar 9509 Iranian calendar 1113 BP – 1112 BP Islamic calendar 1147 BH – 1146 BH Japanese calendar Korean calendar 1842 Thai solar calendar 52

Year 492 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Macerinus and Augurinus (or, less frequently, year 262 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 492 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

• The first expedition of King Darius I of Persia against Greece commences under the leadership of his son-in-law and general, Mardonius. Darius sends Mardonius to succeed his satrap (governor) in Ionia, Artaphernes, with a special commission to attack Athens and Eretria.
• The Persians under Mardonius subdue and capture Thrace and Macedonia.
• Mardonius loses some 300 ships in a storm off Mount Athos, which forces him to abandon his plans to attack Athens and Eretria.

Sicily

• When Camarina, a Syracusan colony, rebels, Hippocrates, the tyrant of Gela, intervenes to wage war against Syracuse. After defeating the Syracusan army at the Heloros River, he besieges the city. However, he is persuaded by the intervention of forces from the Greek mainland city of Corinth to retreat in exchange for the possession of Camarina.

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