496 BC

Millennium:	1st millennium BC
Centuries:	6th century BC – 5th century BC – 4th century BC
Decades:	520s BC  510s BC  500s BC  – 490s BC –  480s BC  470s BC  460s BC
Years:	499 BC 498 BC 497 BC – 496 BC – 495 BC 494 BC 493 BC

496 BC by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

Year 496 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar.

Greece

• Hipparchos, son of Charmos wins the archonship of Athens.

Roman Republic

• The former Etruscan King of Rome, Tarquinius Superbus, who was exiled by the Romans in 508 BC, and his ally Lars Porsena, the King of Clusium, are defeated by the new Roman Republic army in the Battle of Lake Regillus, near Frascati. This battle begins Roman supremacy over the Latins.
• Carthage and Rome make a treaty.

China

• King Goujian of Yue defeats King Fuchai of Wu. This made a short peace in ancient China during the Spring and Autumn Period.

Births

• Sophocles, Athenian dramatist and statesman (d. 406 BC)

Deaths

for more information, see Category:496 BC deaths.

• Sun Tzu, military philosopher and author of The Art of War (b. 544 BC)
• King Helü of Wu, king of the Chinese State of Wu
• Lucius Tarquinius Superbus, the exiled last King of Rome