513 BC

The year 513 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. In the Roman Empire, it was known as year 241 Ab urbe condita. The denomination 513 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:	7th century BC 6th century BC 5th century BC
Decades:	530s BC 520s BC 510s BC 500s BC 490s BC
Years:	516 BC 515 BC 514 BC 513 BC 512 BC 511 BC 510 BC

513 BC in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	513 BC DXIII BC
Ab urbe condita	241
Ancient Egypt era	XXVII dynasty, 13
- Pharaoh	Darius I of Persia, 9
Ancient Greek era	66th Olympiad, year 4
Assyrian calendar	4238
Balinese saka calendar	N/A
Bengali calendar	−1105
Berber calendar	438
Buddhist calendar	32
Burmese calendar	−1150
Byzantine calendar	4996–4997
Chinese calendar	丁亥年 (Fire Pig) 2185 or 1978     — to — 戊子年 (Earth Rat) 2186 or 1979
Coptic calendar	−796 – −795
Discordian calendar	654
Ethiopian calendar	−520 – −519
Hebrew calendar	3248–3249
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	−456 – −455
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	2588–2589
Holocene calendar	9488
Iranian calendar	1134 BP – 1133 BP
Islamic calendar	1169 BH – 1168 BH
Javanese calendar	N/A
Julian calendar	N/A
Korean calendar	1821
Minguo calendar	2424 before ROC 民前2424年
Nanakshahi calendar	−1980
Thai solar calendar	30–31
Tibetan calendar	阴火猪年 (female Fire-Pig) −386 or −767 or −1539     — to — 阳土鼠年 (male Earth-Rat) −385 or −766 or −1538

Events

By place

Asia

• Darius the Great subdues the Getae and east Thrace in his war against the Scythians. To accomplish this, he builds a massive pontoon bridge across the Bosphorus Strait.
• Western India, which includes the Indus Valley, becomes the Persian satrapy Hindush.

Europe

• Amyntas I of Macedon submits to Darius and offers women as concubines to a Persian embassy. His son, Alexander I, objects to this and tricks them by substituting the women with clean-shaven men (or 512 BC).
• European Scythian campaign of Darius I