498 BC

Year 498 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Siculus and Flavus (or, less frequently, year 256 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 498 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.

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
Years:	501 BC 500 BC 499 BC 498 BC 497 BC 496 BC 495 BC

498 BC in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	498 BC CDXCVIII BC
Ab urbe condita	256
Ancient Egypt era	XXVII dynasty, 28
- Pharaoh	Darius I of Persia, 24
Ancient Greek era	70th Olympiad, year 3
Assyrian calendar	4253
Balinese saka calendar	N/A
Bengali calendar	−1090
Berber calendar	453
Buddhist calendar	47
Burmese calendar	−1135
Byzantine calendar	5011–5012
Chinese calendar	壬寅年 (Water Tiger) 2200 or 1993     — to — 癸卯年 (Water Rabbit) 2201 or 1994
Coptic calendar	−781 – −780
Discordian calendar	669
Ethiopian calendar	−505 – −504
Hebrew calendar	3263–3264
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	−441 – −440
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	2603–2604
Holocene calendar	9503
Iranian calendar	1119 BP – 1118 BP
Islamic calendar	1153 BH – 1152 BH
Javanese calendar	N/A
Julian calendar	N/A
Korean calendar	1836
Minguo calendar	2409 before ROC 民前2409年
Nanakshahi calendar	−1965
Thai solar calendar	45–46
Tibetan calendar	阳水虎年 (male Water-Tiger) −371 or −752 or −1524     — to — 阴水兔年 (female Water-Rabbit) −370 or −751 or −1523

Events

By place

Greece

• Alexander I succeeds his father Amyntas I as king of Macedonia.
• Athens and Eretria respond to the Ionian plea for help against Persia and send troops. An Athenian and Eretrian fleet transports Athenian troops to Ephesus. There they are joined by a force of Ionians and march upon Sardis, the capital of Artaphernes (the satrap of Lydia and brother to Darius I of Persia). Artaphernes, who has sent most of his troops to besiege Miletus, is taken by surprise. However, Artaphernes is able to retreat to the citadel and hold it. Although the Greeks are unable to take the citadel, they pillage the town and set fires that burn Sardis to the ground.
• Retreating to the coast, the Greek forces are met by the Persians under Artaphernes and defeated in the Battle of Ephesus.
• Kaunos and Caria, followed by Byzantium and towns in the Hellespont also revolt against the Persians. Cyprus also joins the rebellion, as Onesilus removes his pro-Persian brother, Gorgos, from the throne of Salamis.

Sicily

• After the assassination of Cleander, tyrant of Gela, power is transferred to his brother, Hippocrates, who subdues the Sicels and conquers the Chalcidian cities of Callipoli, Leontini, Naxos and Zancle (now known as Messina). He also captures the Syracusan city of Camarina, but is prevented from capturing Syracuse itself when Corinth and Corcyra interferes in the war.

By topic

Literature

• The Greek poet Pindar composes his earliest surviving epinikion (Pythian ode 10).

Deaths

• Amyntas I, king of Macedonia (b. c. 540 BC)
• Cleander, tyrant of Gela