519 BC

519 BC in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	519 BC DXIX BC
Ab urbe condita	235
Ancient Egypt era	XXVII dynasty, 7
- Pharaoh	Darius I of Persia, 3
Ancient Greek Olympiad (summer)	65th Olympiad, year 2
Assyrian calendar	4232
Balinese saka calendar	N/A
Bengali calendar	−1112 – −1111
Berber calendar	432
Buddhist calendar	26
Burmese calendar	−1156
Byzantine calendar	4990–4991
Chinese calendar	辛巳年 (Metal Snake) 2179 or 1972     — to — 壬午年 (Water Horse) 2180 or 1973
Coptic calendar	−802 – −801
Discordian calendar	648
Ethiopian calendar	−526 – −525
Hebrew calendar	3242–3243
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	−462 – −461
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	2582–2583
Holocene calendar	9482
Iranian calendar	1140 BP – 1139 BP
Islamic calendar	1175 BH – 1174 BH
Javanese calendar	N/A
Julian calendar	N/A
Korean calendar	1815
Minguo calendar	2430 before ROC 民前2430年
Nanakshahi calendar	−1986
Thai solar calendar	24–25
Tibetan calendar	ལྕགས་མོ་སྦྲུལ་ལོ་ (female Iron-Snake) −392 or −773 or −1545     — to — ཆུ་ཕོ་རྟ་ལོ་ (male Water-Horse) −391 or −772 or −1544

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The year 519 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. In the Roman Empire, it was known as year 235 Ab urbe condita. The denomination 519 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

• Herodotus tells that Cleomenes happened to be in the vicinity of Plataia, when the Plataians requested an alliance with Sparta, which he rejected, but instead he advised them to ally with Athens, because he wanted to stir a border conflict between Thebes and Athens, two of the most powerful poleis of central Greece.

China

• Zhou Jing Wang/Ji Gail becomes King of the Zhou Dynasty of China.

Births

• Cincinnatus, Roman aristocrat and statesman (d. 430 BC)
• Xerxes I of Persia, fourth king of Persia (or 518 BC) (d. 465 BC)