514 BC

514 BC in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	514 BC DXIV BC
Ab urbe condita	240
Ancient Egypt era	XXVII dynasty, 12
- Pharaoh	Darius I of Persia, 8
Ancient Greek Olympiad (summer)	66th Olympiad, year 3
Assyrian calendar	4237
Balinese saka calendar	N/A
Bengali calendar	−1107 – −1106
Berber calendar	437
Buddhist calendar	31
Burmese calendar	−1151
Byzantine calendar	4995–4996
Chinese calendar	丙戌年 (Fire Dog) 2184 or 1977     — to — 丁亥年 (Fire Pig) 2185 or 1978
Coptic calendar	−797 – −796
Discordian calendar	653
Ethiopian calendar	−521 – −520
Hebrew calendar	3247–3248
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	−457 – −456
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	2587–2588
Holocene calendar	9487
Iranian calendar	1135 BP – 1134 BP
Islamic calendar	1170 BH – 1169 BH
Javanese calendar	N/A
Julian calendar	N/A
Korean calendar	1820
Minguo calendar	2425 before ROC 民前2425年
Nanakshahi calendar	−1981
Thai solar calendar	29–30
Tibetan calendar	མེ་ཕོ་ཁྱི་ལོ་ (male Fire-Dog) −387 or −768 or −1540     — to — མེ་མོ་ཕག་ལོ་ (female Fire-Boar) −386 or −767 or −1539

The year 514 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. In the Roman Empire, it was known as year 240 Ab urbe condita . The denomination 514 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

China

• King Helü of Wu ascends to the throne of the state of Wu and orders Wu Zixu to build a new capital at what is now Suzhou.

Greece

• Hipparchus, son of Pisistratus and co-ruler of Athens, is assassinated by Harmodius and Aristogeiton at the Panathenaea.

Deaths

• Hipparchus, Athenian tyrant
• Harmodius, one of the tyrannicides, killed during the attack on Hipparchus