495 BC

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Year of the fire horse丙午( at the beginning of the year Wood Snake乙巳)

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

Classic era in Greece (since about 500 BC)

Rome experienced in the year 495 BC, a relatively peaceful year. During this time, a temple to the god Mercury is among other things built and created the office of aedile in Cursus honorum.

Events

Politics and World Affairs

Macedonia

Alexander I, an avowed opponent of the Persian empire, after his father's death Amyntas I King of Macedon. ( According to other sources 498 BC)

Roman Republic

Appius Claudius Sabinus and Publius Servilius Priscus Inregillensis Structus are, according to legend consuls of the early Roman Republic. The latter is the first of the family of Servilius, who will bring forth a series of Roman consuls.

, Around 495 BC, the office of Ädils is introduced as part of the Cursus honorum in the Roman Republic, believed to have originated during the Estates fights from the office of the Keeper of huge importance for the plebeians temple to the goddess Ceres. The two Aedile future have held the police force in the city of Rome.

Imperial China

The philosopher and former statesman Confucius visited on his many years of wandering through the realms at the time of the Spring and Autumn Annals in the State of Wei China.

Economy, religion and culture

In Rome on the Aventine is a temple dedicated to Mercury, the god of merchants and thieves who inaugurated. At the same time a guild of merchants is created whose members call themselves Mercuriales. On Foundation Day of the temple and of the guild, on May 15, sacrificing the merchants from now on annually to the god and his mother Maia and sprinkle from a source dedicated to him at the Porta Capena main and goods with water.

The Greek sculptor Kritios operates BC in Athens to about 450.

Born

  • By 495 BC: Empedocles, a Greek pre-Socratic philosopher, statesman, orator and poet, in Akragas in Sicily († 435 BC)

Died

  • Amyntas I, king of Macedon (c. 540 BC)
  • Anacreon, a Greek poet from the canon of the nine lyric poets, according to legend, after he choked on a grape, in Athens (c. 575/570 BC)
  • Hystaspes, Achaemenid, father of Darius I (c. 570 BC)
  • By 495 BC: Lucius Tarquinius Superbus, the last Etruscan king of Rome
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