473 BC

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  450s BC  440s BC
Years:	476 BC 475 BC 474 BC – 473 BC – 472 BC 471 BC 470 BC

Year 473 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar.

China

• The State of Wu is added by the State of Yue.

Japan

• The Hikawa Shrine is formed in Saitama, Saitama.

Deaths

• King Fuchai of Wu, the last king of Wu in Zhou Dynasty China