499 BC

Centuries:	6th century BC - 5th century BC - 4th century BC
Decades:	520s BC 510s BC 500s BC - 490s BC - 480s BC 470s BC 460s BC
Years:	502 BC 501 BC 500 BC - 499 BC - 498 BC 497 BC 496 BC

499 BC by topic
Politics
State leaders - Sovereign states
Birth and death categories
Births - Deaths
Establishments and disestablishments categories
Establishments - Disestablishments v • d • e

**499 BC in other calendars**
Gregorian calendar	499 BC
Ab urbe condita	255
Armenian calendar	N/A
Bahá'í calendar	-2342 – -2341
Berber calendar	452
Buddhist calendar	46
Burmese calendar	-1136
Chinese calendar	2138/2198 ([[Sexagenary cycle\|]]年) — to — 2139/2199 ([[Sexagenary cycle\|]]年)
Coptic calendar	-782 – -781
Ethiopian calendar	-506 – -505
Hebrew calendar	3262 – 3263
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	-443 – -442
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	2603 – 2604
Holocene calendar	9502
Iranian calendar	1120 BP – 1119 BP
Islamic calendar	1154 BH – 1153 BH
Japanese calendar
- Imperial Year	Kōki 162 (皇紀162年)
Korean calendar	1835
Thai solar calendar	45
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Events

After a failed attack on the rebellious island of Naxos in 502 BC (on behalf of the Persians), Aristagoras, to save himself from the wrath of Persia, plans a revolt with the Milesians and the other Ionians. With the encouragement of Histiaeus (his father-in-law and former tyrant of Miletus), Aristagoras, governor of Miletus, induces the Ionian cities of Asia Minor to revolt against Persia, thus instigating the Ionian Revolt and beginning the Greco-Persian Wars between Greece and Persia. The pro-Persian tyrant of Mytilene is stoned to death.
Aristagoras seeks help with the revolt against the Persians from Cleomenes I, the King of Sparta, but the Spartans are unwilling to respond.
Miltiades the Younger, the ruler of the Thracian Chersonese, which has been under Persian suzerainty since approximately 514 BC, joins the Ionian revolt. He seizes the islands of Lemnos and Imbros from the Persians.