499 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: 502 BC 501 BC 500 BC – 499 BC – 498 BC 497 BC 496 BC

The Ionian Revolt

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499 BC in other calendars Gregorian calendar 499 BC Ab urbe condita 255 Armenian calendar N/A Bahá'í calendar -2342 – -2341 Bengali calendar -1091 Berber calendar 452 Buddhist calendar 46 Burmese calendar -1136 Byzantine calendar 5010 – 5011 Chinese calendar [[Sexagenary cycle|]]年 (2138/2198) — to — [[Sexagenary cycle|]]年 (2139/2199) Coptic calendar -782 – -781 Ethiopian calendar -506 – -505 Hebrew calendar 3262 – 3263 Hindu calendars  - Bikram Samwat -442 – -441  - Shaka Samvat N/A  - Kali Yuga 2603 – 2604 Holocene calendar 9502 Iranian calendar 1120 BP – 1119 BP Islamic calendar 1154 BH – 1153 BH Japanese calendar Korean calendar 1835 Thai solar calendar 45

Year 499 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. In the Roman Empire it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Aebutius and Cicurinus (or, less frequently, year 255 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 499 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

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Greece

• After a failed attack on the rebellious island of Naxos in 502 BC (on behalf of the Persians), Aristagoras, to save himself from the wrath of Persia, plans a revolt with the Milesians and the other Ionians. With the encouragement of Histiaeus (his father-in-law and former tyrant of Miletus), Aristagoras, governor of Miletus, induces the Ionian cities of Asia Minor to revolt against Persia, thus instigating the Ionian Revolt and beginning the Greco-Persian Wars between Greece and Persia. The pro-Persian tyrant of Mytilene is stoned to death.
• Aristagoras seeks help with the revolt against the Persians from Cleomenes I, the King of Sparta, but the Spartans are unwilling to respond.
• Miltiades the Younger, the ruler of the Thracian Chersonese, which has been under Persian suzerainty since approximately 514 BC, joins the Ionian revolt. He seizes the islands of Lemnos and Imbros from the Persians.

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