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[[File:Naqsh Rostam Dariush.jpg|upright=1.35|thumb|Relief of king [[Darius I]] (550–486 BCE)]]
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Year '''486 BC''' was a year of the [[Roman calendar|pre-Julian Roman calendar]]. At the time, it was known as the '''Year of the Consulship of Viscellinus and Rutilus''' (or, less frequently, '''year 268 ''[[Ab urbe condita]]'''''). The denomination 486 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 ==
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=== By place ===
==== Persian Empire ====
* [[Ancient Egypt|Egypt]] revolts against [[Achaemenid Empire|Persian]] rule upon the death of king [[Darius I]]. The revolts, probably led by [[Libya]]ns of the western Delta, are crushed the next year by [[Xerxes I of Persia|Xerxes]], who reduces Egypt to the status of a conquered province.

==== Roman Republic ====
* [[Roman Republic|Rome]] enters into a new treaty with the [[Roman conquest of the Hernici#The foedus Cassianum - 5th century BC|Hernici]].
* During his third consulate, the [[Roman consul]] [[Spurius Cassius Vecellinus]] proposes an [[agrarian law]] to assist needy [[Plebs|plebeians]].  The proposal is vehemently opposed by the [[Patrician (ancient Rome)|patricians]] including the other consul [[Proculus Verginius Tricostus Rutilus]], and the plebs turn against the patricians. In the following year Cassius is condemned and executed for [[perduellio|high treason]].

==== China ====
* The first part of the [[Grand Canal (China)|Grand Canal of China]] is built during the reign of [[Fuchai of Wu|King Fuchai of Wu]].<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Needham |first1=Joseph |title=Civil engineering and nautics |last2=Ling |first2=Wang |last3=Lu |first3=Guizhen |last4=Needham |first4=Joseph |date=2006 |publisher=Cambridge Univ. Press |isbn=978-0-521-07060-7 |edition=Reprint |series=Science and civilisation in China / by Joseph Needham Vol. 4, Physics and physical technology |location=Cambridge |pages=271–272}}</ref> It links the [[Yangtze River]] with the [[Huai River]], and is a measure to ship ample amount of supplies north for intended wars with the northern states of [[Song (state)|Song]] and [[Lu (state)|Lu]].

=== By topic ===
==== Art ====
* The construction of a relief in the [[Apadana]], a ceremonial complex at [[Persepolis]], is finished. It shows Darius and Xerxes receiving tribute.
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== Deaths ==
* [[Darius I]], king of the Persian [[Achaemenid Empire]] (b. [[550 BCE]])<ref>{{Citation |last=Boyce |first=Mary |title=Darius the Great (522-486 B.c.) |date=1982-01-01 |url=https://brill.com/display/book/9789004293908/B9789004293908-s008.xml |work=A History of Zoroastrianism, Zoroastrianism under the Achaemenians |pages=90–131 |access-date=2023-09-07 |publisher=Brill |language=en |doi=10.1163/9789004293908_008 |isbn=978-90-04-29390-8|url-access=subscription }}</ref>
* [[Spurius Cassius Vecellinus]], [[Roman consul]] (executed)

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