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516 BC

516 BC

Calendar year


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.

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Greece

  • Cleomenes received an embassy from Maeandrius of Samos asking him for help to expel the tyrant Syloson, a puppet of the Persian Empire, which was at the time subjugating the city-states of the eastern Aegean sea.

India

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