492 BC

Calendar year

Millennium:	1st millennium BC
Centuries:	6th century BC 5th century BC 4th century BC
Decades:	510s BC 500s BC 490s BC 480s BC 470s BC
Years:	495 BC 494 BC 493 BC 492 BC 491 BC 490 BC 489 BC

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492 BC in various calendars
Gregorian calendar	492 BC CDXCII BC
Ab urbe condita	262
Ancient Egypt era	XXVII dynasty, 34
- Pharaoh	Darius I of Persia, 30
Ancient Greek era	72nd Olympiad (victor)¹
Assyrian calendar	4259
Balinese saka calendar	N/A
Bengali calendar	−1084
Berber calendar	459
Buddhist calendar	53
Burmese calendar	−1129
Byzantine calendar	5017–5018
Chinese calendar	戊申年 (Earth Monkey) 2206 or 1999 — to — 己酉年 (Earth Rooster) 2207 or 2000
Coptic calendar	−775 – −774
Discordian calendar	675
Ethiopian calendar	−499 – −498
Hebrew calendar	3269–3270
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	−435 – −434
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	2609–2610
Holocene calendar	9509
Iranian calendar	1113 BP – 1112 BP
Islamic calendar	1147 BH – 1146 BH
Javanese calendar	N/A
Julian calendar	N/A
Korean calendar	1842
Minguo calendar	2403 before ROC 民前2403年
Nanakshahi calendar	−1959
Thai solar calendar	51–52
Tibetan calendar	阳土猴年 (male Earth-Monkey) −365 or −746 or −1518 — to — 阴土鸡年 (female Earth-Rooster) −364 or −745 or −1517

Year 492 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Macerinus and Augurinus (or, less frequently, year 262 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 492 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

Greece

The first expedition of King Darius I of Persia against Greece commences under the leadership of his son-in-law and general, Mardonius. Darius sends Mardonius to succeed his satrap (governor) in Ionia, Artaphernes, with a special commission to attack Athens and Eretria.
The Persians under Mardonius subdue and capture Thrace and Macedonia.
Mardonius loses some 300 ships in a storm off Mount Athos, which forces him to abandon his plans to attack Athens and Eretria.
Tisicrates wins the stadion race for a second time at the 72nd Olympic Games.^[1]

Sicily

When Camarina, a Syracusan colony, rebels, Hippocrates, the tyrant of Gela, intervenes to wage war against Syracuse. After defeating the Syracusan army at the Heloros River, he besieges the city. However, he is persuaded by the intervention of forces from the Greek mainland city of Corinth to retreat in exchange for the possession of Camarina.

Rome

Following the conclusion of the secession of the plebs, a famine strikes Rome. The consuls avert the crisis by obtaining grain from Etruria.
War with the Volsci is averted because a pestilence affects the Volsci. Rome sends additional colonists to Velitrae and establishes a new colony in Norba.