515 BC

Millennium:	1st millennium BC
Centuries:	7th century BC · 6th century BC · 5th century BC
Decades:	540s BC · 530s BC · 520s BC · 510s BC · 500s BC · 490s BC · 480s BC
Years:	518 BC · 517 BC · 516 BC · 515 BC · 514 BC · 513 BC · 512 BC

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515 BC in various calendars
Gregorian calendar	515 BC DXIV BC
Ab urbe condita	239
Ancient Egypt era	XXVII dynasty, 11
- Pharaoh	Darius I of Persia, 7
Ancient Greek era	66th Olympiad, year 2
Assyrian calendar	4236
Bengali calendar	−1107
Berber calendar	436
Buddhist calendar	30
Burmese calendar	−1152
Byzantine calendar	4994–4995
Chinese calendar	乙酉年 (Wood Rooster) 2182 or 2122 — to — 丙戌年 (Fire Dog) 2183 or 2123
Coptic calendar	−798 – −797
Discordian calendar	652
Ethiopian calendar	−522 – −521
Hebrew calendar	3246–3247
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	−458 – −457
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	2586–2587
Holocene calendar	9486
Iranian calendar	1136 BP – 1135 BP
Islamic calendar	1171 BH – 1170 BH
Javanese calendar	N/A
Julian calendar	N/A
Korean calendar	1819
Minguo calendar	2426 before ROC 民前2426年
Nanakshahi calendar	−1982
Thai solar calendar	28–29

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The year 515 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. In the Roman Empire, it was known as year 239 Ab urbe condita . The denomination 515 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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Art and architecture

February 25 – The Second Temple in Jerusalem is completed.
Euphronios creates the Death of Sarpedon, a red-figure decoration on a calyx krater. It is now at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.

Births

Parmenides, Greek religious philosopher ^[1] (d. 450 BC)

Deaths

Arcesilaus III of Cyrene, the sixth Greek Cyrenaean King, was assassinated in 515 BC
King Liao of Wu (Chinese: 吳王僚), king of the state of Wu in the Spring and Autumn period from 526 to 515 BC, assassinated by Zhuan Zhu in 515 BC
Pheretima (Cyrenaean Queen), wife of the Greek Cyrenaean King Battus III and the last recorded queen of the Battiad dynasty in Cyrenaica
Polycrates, son of Aeaces, the tyrant of Samos from c. 538 BC to 522 BC
Zhuan Zhu, an assassin in the Spring and Autumn period.

References

↑ Palmer, John (1 January 2016). Zalta, Edward N., ed. The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy – via Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

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