489 BC

Year 489 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Iullus and Rufus (or, less frequently, year 265 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 489 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.

Millennium:	1st millennium BC
Centuries:	6th century BC 5th century BC 4th century BC
Decades:	500s BC 490s BC 480s BC 470s BC 460s BC
Years:	492 BC 491 BC 490 BC 489 BC 488 BC 487 BC 486 BC

489 BC in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	489 BC CDLXXXIX BC
Ab urbe condita	265
Ancient Egypt era	XXVII dynasty, 37
- Pharaoh	Darius I of Persia, 33
Ancient Greek era	72nd Olympiad, year 4
Assyrian calendar	4262
Balinese saka calendar	N/A
Bengali calendar	−1081
Berber calendar	462
Buddhist calendar	56
Burmese calendar	−1126
Byzantine calendar	5020–5021
Chinese calendar	辛亥年 (Metal Pig) 2209 or 2002     — to — 壬子年 (Water Rat) 2210 or 2003
Coptic calendar	−772 – −771
Discordian calendar	678
Ethiopian calendar	−496 – −495
Hebrew calendar	3272–3273
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	−432 – −431
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	2612–2613
Holocene calendar	9512
Iranian calendar	1110 BP – 1109 BP
Islamic calendar	1144 BH – 1143 BH
Javanese calendar	N/A
Julian calendar	N/A
Korean calendar	1845
Minguo calendar	2400 before ROC 民前2400年
Nanakshahi calendar	−1956
Thai solar calendar	54–55
Tibetan calendar	阴金猪年 (female Iron-Pig) −362 or −743 or −1515     — to — 阳水鼠年 (male Water-Rat) −361 or −742 or −1514

Events

By place

Greece

• After his great victory in the Battle of Marathon, Miltiades leads a naval expedition to Paros to pay off a private score. However, the expedition is unsuccessful and, on his return, he is fined in a prosecution led by Xanthippus and put in prison where he dies of wounds received at Paros.
• The Athenian soldier and statesman, Aristides (the Just), is made chief archon of Athens.

Deaths

• Cleomenes I, king of Sparta (approximate date)
• Miltiades, Athenian general (b. c. 550 BC)