475 BC

Millennium:	1st millennium BC
Centuries:	6th century BC 5th century BC 4th century BC
Decades:	490s BC 480s BC 470s BC 460s BC 450s BC
Years:	478 BC 477 BC 476 BC 475 BC 474 BC 473 BC 472 BC

475 BC in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	475 BC CDLXXIV BC
Ab urbe condita	279
Ancient Egypt era	XXVII dynasty, 51
- Pharaoh	Xerxes I of Persia, 11
Ancient Greek era	76th Olympiad, year 2
Assyrian calendar	4276
Balinese saka calendar	N/A
Bengali calendar	−1067
Berber calendar	476
Buddhist calendar	70
Burmese calendar	−1112
Byzantine calendar	5034–5035
Chinese calendar	乙丑年 (Wood Ox) 2222 or 2162     — to — 丙寅年 (Fire Tiger) 2223 or 2163
Coptic calendar	−758 – −757
Discordian calendar	692
Ethiopian calendar	−482 – −481
Hebrew calendar	3286–3287
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	−418 – −417
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	2626–2627
Holocene calendar	9526
Iranian calendar	1096 BP – 1095 BP
Islamic calendar	1130 BH – 1129 BH
Javanese calendar	N/A
Julian calendar	N/A
Korean calendar	1859
Minguo calendar	2386 before ROC 民前2386年
Nanakshahi calendar	−1942
Thai solar calendar	68–69
Tibetan calendar	阴木牛年 (female Wood-Ox) −348 or −729 or −1501     — to — 阳火虎年 (male Fire-Tiger) −347 or −728 or −1500

Events

By place

Greece

• Cimon leads an Athenian attack on the island of Skyros and expels the indigenous inhabitants who are regarded as pirates.[1]
• The first recorded eruption of Mount Etna.[2]

China

• Zhou Yuan Wang becomes King of the Zhou Dynasty.

By topic

Arts

• The painter Polygnotus of Thasos begins his work (approximate date).

Births

Deaths

• Heraclitus of Ephesus, Greek philosopher (b. c. 535 BC)

References

1. Smith, Sir William (1857). History of Greece. p. 227.
2. "Mount Etna | Eruptions, History, & Facts". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 7 April 2019.