516 BC
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The year 516 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. In the Roman Empire, it was known as year 238 Ab urbe condita . The denomination 516 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.[1]
Events
By place
Greece
- Cleomenes I of Sparta receives an embassy from Maeandrius of Samos asking for help to expel the tyrant Syloson, a puppet of the Persian Empire, which is at the time subjugating the city-states of the eastern Aegean Sea.[2]
India
Deaths
- King Ping of Chu, King of the state of Chu from 528 to 516 BC[4]