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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: 479 BC 478 BC 477 BC – 476 BC – 475 BC 474 BC 473 BC
476 BC by topic
Politics
State leaders – Sovereign states
Birth and death categories
Births – Deaths
Establishments and disestablishments categories
Establishments – Disestablishments
Ab urbe condita 278
Armenian calendar N/A
Bahá'í calendar -2319 – -2318
Bengali calendar -1068
Berber calendar 475
Buddhist calendar 69
Burmese calendar -1113
Byzantine calendar 5033 – 5034
Chinese calendar 甲子年
(2161/2221)
— to —
[[Sexagenary cycle|]]年(2162/2222)
Coptic calendar -759 – -758
Ethiopian calendar -483 – -482
Hebrew calendar 3285 – 3286
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat -420 – -419
- Shaka Samvat N/A
- Kali Yuga 2626 – 2627
Holocene calendar 9525
Iranian calendar 1097 BP – 1096 BP
Islamic calendar 1131 BH – 1130 BH
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar 1858
Thai solar calendar 68
Year 476 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Rutilus and Structus (or, less frequently, year 278 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 476 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
- Convicted in Sparta on the charge of accepting a bribe from the Aleudae family whilst leading an expedition to Thessaly against the family for their collaboration with the Persians, the Spartan King Leotychidas flees to the temple of Athena Alea in Tegea, Arcadia. A sentence of exile is passed upon him; his house is razed, and his grandson, Archidamus II, ascends the Spartan throne in his place.
- Cimon of Athens increases his power at the expense of Themistocles. He ousts Pausanias and the Spartans from the area around the Bosporus. The Spartans, hearing that Pausanias is intriguing with the Persians, recall him and he is "disciplined".
- Under the leadership of Kimon, the Delian League continues to fight the Persians and to release the Ionian cities from Persian domination. Athens' capture of Eion on the Strymon from the Persians is led by Cimon.
By topic
Literature
- The Greek poet Pindar visits Sicily and is made welcome at the courts of Theron of Acragas and Hieron I of Syracuse. They commission some of his greatest poetry. It is through these connections that Pindar's reputation spreads all over the Greek world.
Births
Deaths
- Zhou Jing Wang (Ji Gai), King of the Chinese Zhou Dynasty