513 BC
| Millennium: | 1st millennium BC |
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| 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 by topic |
| Politics |
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| Categories |
| Gregorian calendar | 513 BC DXII 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 | 2588–2589 |
| Holocene calendar | 9488 |
| Iranian calendar | 1134 BP – 1133 BP |
| Islamic calendar | 1169 BH – 1168 BH |
| Javanese calendar | N/A |
| Julian calendar | N/A |
| Korean calendar | 1821 |
| Minguo calendar | 2424 before ROC 民前2424年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | −1980 |
| Thai solar calendar | 30–31 |
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The year 513 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. In the Roman Empire, it was known as year 241 Ab urbe condita . The denomination 513 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
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
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