470 BC

Millennium:	1st millennium BC
Centuries:	6th century BC – 5th century BC – 4th century BC
Decades:	500s BC  490s BC  480s BC  – 470s BC –  460s BC  450s BC  440s BC
Years:	473 BC 472 BC 471 BC – 470 BC – 469 BC 468 BC 467 BC

470 BC in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	470 BC
Ab urbe condita	284
Ancient Egypt era	XXVII dynasty, 56
- Pharaoh	Xerxes I of Persia, 16
Ancient Greek era	77th Olympiad, year 3
Assyrian calendar	4281
Bengali calendar	−1062
Berber calendar	481
Buddhist calendar	75
Burmese calendar	−1107
Byzantine calendar	5039–5040
Chinese calendar	庚午年 (Metal Horse) 2227 or 2167     — to — 辛未年 (Metal Goat) 2228 or 2168
Coptic calendar	−753 – −752
Discordian calendar	697
Ethiopian calendar	−477 – −476
Hebrew calendar	3291–3292
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	−413 – −412
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	2632–2633
Holocene calendar	9531
Iranian calendar	1091 BP – 1090 BP
Islamic calendar	1125 BH – 1123 BH
Julian calendar	N/A
Korean calendar	1864
Minguo calendar	2381 before ROC 民前2381年
Thai solar calendar	73–74

Year 470 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Potitus and Mamercus (or, less frequently, year 284 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 470 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

• Suspected of plotting to seize power in Sparta by instigating a helot uprising, Pausanias takes refuge in the Temple of Athena of the Brazen House to escape arrest. The sanctuary is respected, but the Spartans wall in the sanctuary and starve Pausanias to death.

By topic

Architecture

• The construction of the Temple of Zeus, begins at Olympia, Greece. This includes the relief sculpture (of which fragments now remain at the Archaeological Museum of Olympia) of Apollo with battling Lapiths and centaurs (approximate date).

Art

• The Charioteer, in the Sanctuary of Apollo, Delphi, is created in commemoration of a victory in the Pythian Games of 478 or 474 BC (approximate date). It is now preserved at the Delphi Archaeological Museum.
• Pan Painter makes a "bell krater" (an earthenware piece that is used to mix water and wine) which has a red-figure decoration of Artemis slaying Actaeon. It is now preserved at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston (approximate date).

Births

• Aspasia of Miletus, mistress of Pericles of Athens (d. c. 400 BC)
• Mozi, Chinese philosopher (d. c. 390 BC)

Socrates

Deaths

• Pausanias, Spartan commander during the Greco-Persian Wars

References