514 BC
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The year 514 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. In the Roman Empire, it was known as year 240 Ab urbe condita . The denomination 514 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.[1]
Events
By place
China
- King Helü of Wu ascends to the throne of the state of Wu and orders Wu Zixu to build a new capital at what is now Suzhou.[2]
Greece
- Hipparchus, son of Pisistratus and co-ruler of Athens, is assassinated by Harmodius and Aristogeiton at the Panathenaea.[3]
Deaths
- Hipparchus, Athenian tyrant
- Harmodius, one of the tyrannicides, killed during the attack on Hipparchus[4]
References
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- ↑ Sima Qian, Shiji, ch. 31, "Hereditary House of Wu Taibo".
- ↑ Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War, 6.54–59.
- ↑ Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War, 6.57.
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