513 BC

Millennium:	1st millennium BC
Centuries:	7th century BC – 6th century BC – 5th century BC
Decades:	540s BC  530s BC  520s BC  – 510s BC –  500s BC  490s BC  480s BC
Years:	516 BC 515 BC 514 BC – 513 BC – 512 BC 511 BC 510 BC

513 BC in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	513 BC
Ab urbe condita	241
Ancient Egypt era	XXVII dynasty, 13
- Pharaoh	Darius I of Persia, 9
Ancient Greek era	66th Olympiad, year 4
Assyrian calendar	4238
Bengali calendar	−1105
Berber calendar	438
Buddhist calendar	32
Burmese calendar	−1150
Byzantine calendar	4996–4997
Chinese calendar	丁亥年 (Fire Pig) 2184 or 2124     — to — 戊子年 (Earth Rat) 2185 or 2125
Coptic calendar	−796 – −795
Discordian calendar	654
Ethiopian calendar	−520 – −519
Hebrew calendar	3248–3249
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	−456 – −455
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	2589–2590
Holocene calendar	9488
Iranian calendar	1134 BP – 1133 BP
Islamic calendar	1169 BH – 1168 BH
Julian calendar	N/A
Korean calendar	1821
Minguo calendar	2424 before ROC 民前2424年
Thai solar calendar	30–31

Events

By place

Asia

• Darius the Great subdues the Getae and east Thrace in his war against the Scythians. To accomplish this, he builds a massive pontoon bridge across the Bosphorus Strait.^[1]
• Western India, which includes the Indus Valley, becomes the Persian satrapy Hindush.

Europe

• Amyntas I of Macedon submits to Darius and offers women as concubines to a Persian embassy. Objecting to this, Alexander his son tricks them by substituting the women with clean-shaven men (or 512 BC).^[2]

Births

Deaths

References

1. http://www.angelfire.com/empire2/unkemptgoose/Persian.html
2. Borza, Eugene. In the Shadow of Olympus. Princeton: Princeton University, 1992. Web. 22 October 2014. 101.