Millennium: 1st millennium BC
Centuries:
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483 BC in various calendars
Gregorian calendar483 BC
CDLXXXIII BC
Ab urbe condita271
Ancient Egypt eraXXVII dynasty, 43
- PharaohXerxes I of Persia, 3
Ancient Greek era74th Olympiad, year 2
Assyrian calendar4268
Balinese saka calendarN/A
Bengali calendar−1075
Berber calendar468
Buddhist calendar62
Burmese calendar−1120
Byzantine calendar5026–5027
Chinese calendar丁巳年 (Fire Snake)
2215 or 2008
     to 
戊午年 (Earth Horse)
2216 or 2009
Coptic calendar−766 – −765
Discordian calendar684
Ethiopian calendar−490 – −489
Hebrew calendar3278–3279
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat−426 – −425
 - Shaka SamvatN/A
 - Kali Yuga2618–2619
Holocene calendar9518
Iranian calendar1104 BP – 1103 BP
Islamic calendar1138 BH – 1137 BH
Javanese calendarN/A
Julian calendarN/A
Korean calendar1851
Minguo calendar2394 before ROC
民前2394年
Nanakshahi calendar−1950
Thai solar calendar60–61
Tibetan calendar阴火蛇年
(female Fire-Snake)
−356 or −737 or −1509
     to 
阳土马年
(male Earth-Horse)
−355 or −736 or −1508

Year 483 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Vibulanus and Potitus (or, less frequently, year 271 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 483 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

By place

Persian empire

  • Xerxes I of Persia is encouraged by his cousin and brother-in-law, Mardonius, supported by a strong party of exiled Greeks, to take revenge for the defeat that Darius I suffered at the hands of the Greeks at Marathon in 490 BC. In response, Xerxes prepares for a major expedition to crush the Greeks. To avoid a repeat of the significant losses to the Persian fleet that occurred in 492 BC, Xerxes has a canal cut through the promontory of Mount Athos.

Greece

  • The Athenian archon Themistocles realises that the Greeks need to be able to beat the Persians at sea. To carry out this strategy, however, Athens needs far more warships (that is to say the newly developed, specialised triremes) than the 70 it has. Themistocles is initially opposed by other Athenian leaders. However, when the state-owned silver mines at Laurium become the site of a rich strike, Themistocles persuades the assembly, instead of "declaring a dividend," to devote the whole surplus to increasing the navy to a proposed 200 ships.

India

  • Following the death of Gautama Buddha, the relics associated with his cremation were divided amongst royal families and his disciples, then interned in 8 reliquaries. Each reliquary was then encased in its own burial mound, called a stupa (approximate date).

Sicily

  • Gelo, the tyrant of Syracuse conquers the nearby Sicilian cities of Euboea and Megara Hyblaea, selling their common people into slavery and bringing their oligarchs to Syracuse.

Rome

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