502 BC
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The year 502 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. In the Roman Empire it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Tricostus and Viscellinus[1] (or, less frequently, year 252 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 502 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
[edit]By place
[edit]Mediterranean
[edit]- The island of Naxos rebels against the Persian Empire.[2]
- Rome suppresses the Pometian revolt.[3][4]
- December 4—A solar eclipse darkens Egypt (computed, no clear historical record of observation).[5]
Deaths
[edit]- Milo of Croton, ancient Greek wrestler[6]
References
[edit]- ↑ Broughton, T. Robert S. (1951). The Magistrates of the Roman Republic. 1. American Philological Association. p. 9.
- ↑ Herodotus, Histories, V, 28–30.
- ↑ Livy, Ab urbe condita, 2.17
- ↑ Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Romaike Archaiologia, v. 49.
- ↑ "Five Millennium Catalog of Solar Eclipses: −0599 to −0500". NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. Retrieved 25 February 2026.
- ↑ Strabo, Geographica, 6.1.12.