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.¹

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.²

Greece

Hipparchus, son of Pisistratus and co-ruler of Athens, is assassinated by Harmodius and Aristogeiton at the Panathenaea.³

Deaths

Hipparchus, Athenian tyrant
Harmodius, one of the tyrannicides, killed during the attack on Hipparchus⁴

References

Bickerman, E. J. (1980). Chronology of the Ancient World (2nd ed.). Ithaca: Cornell University Press. p. 137. ISBN 978-0-8014-1282-0.
Sima Qian, Shiji, ch. 31, "Hereditary House of Wu Taibo".
Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War, 6.54–59.
Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War, 6.57.

[1] Bickerman, E. J. (1980). Chronology of the Ancient World (2nd ed.). Ithaca: Cornell University Press. p. 137. ISBN 978-0-8014-1282-0.

[2] Sima Qian, Shiji, ch. 31, "Hereditary House of Wu Taibo".

[3] Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War, 6.54–59.

[4] Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War, 6.57.

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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