497 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:	500 BC 499 BC 498 BC – 497 BC – 496 BC 495 BC 494 BC

497 BC in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	497 BC CDXCVI BC
Ab urbe condita	257
Ancient Egypt era	XXVII dynasty, 29
- Pharaoh	Darius I of Persia, 25
Ancient Greek era	70th Olympiad, year 4
Assyrian calendar	4254
Bengali calendar	−1089
Berber calendar	454
Buddhist calendar	48
Burmese calendar	−1134
Byzantine calendar	5012–5013
Chinese calendar	癸卯年 (Water Rabbit) 2200 or 2140     — to — 甲辰年 (Wood Dragon) 2201 or 2141
Coptic calendar	−780 – −779
Discordian calendar	670
Ethiopian calendar	−504 – −503
Hebrew calendar	3264–3265
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	−440 – −439
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	2605–2606
Holocene calendar	9504
Iranian calendar	1118 BP – 1117 BP
Islamic calendar	1152 BH – 1151 BH
Julian calendar	N/A
Korean calendar	1837
Minguo calendar	2408 before ROC 民前2408年
Thai solar calendar	46–47

Year 497 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Atratinus and Augurinus (or, less frequently, year 257 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 497 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

By place

Greece

• Artybius ends the rebellion in Cyprus.
• The Persians launch an expedition on the Hellespont and later Caria.

Rome

• December 17 – Consecration of the newly constructed Temple of Saturn in the Roman forum, and Saturnalia festival first celebrated.

Births

Sophocles