486 BC

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Year of the Hare wood乙卯( at the beginning of the year Wood Tiger甲寅)

  • Red-figure vase painting (since 530 BC)
  • Black-figure vase painting (since 630 BC)

Classic era in Greece (since 500 BC) Severe style (since about 490 BC)

The year 486 BC brings a change of ruler in the Persian Empire. Xerxes I succeeds his deceased father as Darius I the Great King of Achaemenid Empire. He is facing a revolt of 525 AD v. since the Persian Empire belonging to Egypt under the leadership of Psammetichus IV faced.

Events

Politics and World Affairs

Greece

  • Megakles from the family of Alkmaioniden is banished by ostracism from Athens.

Roman Republic

  • During his third consulate Spurius Cassius Vecellinus draws with his counterpart Proculus Verginius against the neighboring tribes of the Volscians and Hernici to battle and defeated them. In this battle probably fall of Roman military tribune Opiter Verginius Tricostus.
  • Spurius Cassius Vecellinus, is executed at the end of his consulship for alleged political offenses inside, on their way to the historians disagree.

Persian Empire

  • The Persian Great King Darius I die. Successor as ruler of the Achaemenid Empire is his son Xerxes I of Darius ' marriage with Atossa, although there are older brothers from a previous marriage.
  • Egypt tries to solve under Psammetichus IV from the Persian Empire.

Science and Technology

  • On the Yangtze River in China, the Han - channel built the first section of the later Emperor channel.

Sports

  • The Athenians Megakles wins in a chariot race with the foursome at the Pythian Games in Delphi.

Died

  • 486 BC: Opiter Verginius Tricostus, Roman consul and military tribune
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