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Year '''492 BC''' was a year of the [[Roman calendar|pre-Julian Roman calendar]]. At the time, it was known as the '''Year of the Consulship of Macerinus and Augurinus''' (or, less frequently, '''year 262 ''[[Ab urbe condita]]'''''). The denomination 492 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 ==
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=== By place ===
==== Greece ====
* The first expedition of King [[Darius I]] of [[Persia]] against [[Ancient Greece|Greece]] commences under the leadership of his son-in-law and general, [[Mardonius (nephew of Darius I)|Mardonius]]. Darius sends Mardonius to succeed his [[satrap]] (governor) in [[Ionia]], [[Artaphernes]], with a special commission to attack [[Athens]] and [[Eretria]].
* The Persians under Mardonius subdue and capture [[Thrace]] and [[Macedon]]ia.
* Mardonius loses some 300 ships in a storm off [[Mount Athos]], which forces him to abandon his plans to attack Athens and Eretria.
* Tisicrates wins the [[stadion race]] for a second time at the 72nd [[Ancient Olympic Games|Olympic Games]].<ref>[[Eusebius of Caesarea]], ''Chronicle'' [http://www.attalus.org/translate/eusebius2.html].</ref>

==== Sicily ====
* When [[Kamarina, Sicily|Camarina]], a Syracusan colony, rebels, [[Hippocrates of Gela|Hippocrates]], the [[tyrant]] of [[Gela]], intervenes to wage war against [[Syracuse, Sicily|Syracuse]]. After defeating the Syracusan army at the [[Heloros River]], he besieges the city. However, he is persuaded by the intervention of forces from the Greek mainland city of [[Ancient Corinth|Corinth]] to retreat in exchange for the possession of Camarina.

==== Rome ====
* Following the conclusion of the [[First secessio plebis in 494 BC|secession of the plebs]], a famine strikes Rome.  The consuls avert the crisis by obtaining grain from [[Etruria]].
* War with the [[Volsci]] is [[Roman-Volscian wars#Hostilities averted in 492 BC|averted]] because a pestilence affects the Volsci.  Rome sends additional colonists to [[Velitrae]] and establishes a new [[Roman colony|colony]] in [[Norba]].

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