483 BC

Millennium:	1st millennium BC
Centuries:	6th century BC – 5th century BC – 4th century BC
Decades:	510s BC  500s BC  490s BC  – 480s BC –  470s BC  460s BC  450s BC
Years:	486 BC 485 BC 484 BC – 483 BC – 482 BC 481 BC 480 BC

483 BC in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	483 BC
Ab urbe condita	271
Ancient Egypt era	XXVII dynasty, 43
- Pharaoh	Xerxes I of Persia, 3
Ancient Greek era	74th Olympiad, year 2
Assyrian calendar	4268
Bengali calendar	−1075
Berber calendar	468
Buddhist calendar	62
Burmese calendar	−1120
Byzantine calendar	5026–5027
Chinese calendar	丁巳年 (Fire Snake) 2214 or 2154     — to — 戊午年 (Earth Horse) 2215 or 2155
Coptic calendar	−766 – −765
Discordian calendar	684
Ethiopian calendar	−490 – −489
Hebrew calendar	3278–3279
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	−426 – −425
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	2619–2620
Holocene calendar	9518
Iranian calendar	1104 BP – 1103 BP
Islamic calendar	1138 BH – 1137 BH
Julian calendar	N/A
Korean calendar	1851
Minguo calendar	2394 before ROC 民前2394年
Thai solar calendar	60–61

Year 483 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Vibulanus and Potitus (or, less frequently, year 271 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 483 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

Persian empire

• Xerxes I of Persia is encouraged by his cousin and brother-in-law, Mardonius, supported by a strong party of exiled Greeks, to take revenge for the defeat that Darius I suffered at the hands of the Greeks at Marathon in 490 BC. In response, Xerxes prepares for a major expedition to crush the Greeks. To avoid a repeat of the significant losses to the Persian fleet that occurred in 492 BC, Xerxes has a canal cut through the promontory of Mount Athos.

Greece

• The Athenian archon Themistocles realises that the Greeks need to be able to beat the Persians at sea. To carry out this strategy, however, Athens needs far more warships (that is to say the newly developed, specialised triremes) than the 70 it has. Themistocles is initially opposed by other Athenian leaders. However, when the state-owned silver mines at Laurium become the site of a rich strike, Themistocles persuades the assembly, instead of "declaring a dividend," to devote the whole surplus to increasing the navy to a proposed 200 ships.

India

• The Buddhist relics are divided into 8 portions and placed in 8 reliquaries. Each reliquary is then encased in its own burial mound, called stupa. King Ashoka opens the original 8 stupas and divides their relics among many more stupas, probably including the one at Sanchi (approximate date).

Sicily

• Gelo, the tyrant of Syracuse conquers the nearby Sicilian cities of Euboea and Megara Hyblaea, selling their common people into slavery and bringing their oligarchs to Syracuse.

Rome

• Commencement of the Fabian war with Veii.
• Ongoing hostilities with the Volsci.
• Punishment of the vestal virgin Oppia for a breach of chastity.

Births

Deaths

• May – Gautama Buddha, Indian prince, founder of Buddhism (b. c. 563 BC)

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