501 BC

Millennium:	1st millennium BC
Centuries:	7th century BC – 6th century BC – 5th century BC
Decades:	530s BC  520s BC  510s BC  – 500s BC –  490s BC  480s BC  470s BC
Years:	504 BC 503 BC 502 BC – 501 BC – 500 BC 499 BC 498 BC

501 BC in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	501 BC D BC
Ab urbe condita	253
Ancient Egypt era	XXVII dynasty, 25
- Pharaoh	Darius I of Persia, 21
Ancient Greek era	69th Olympiad, year 4
Assyrian calendar	4250
Bengali calendar	−1093
Berber calendar	450
Buddhist calendar	44
Burmese calendar	−1138
Byzantine calendar	5008–5009
Chinese calendar	己亥年 (Earth Pig) 2196 or 2136     — to — 庚子年 (Metal Rat) 2197 or 2137
Coptic calendar	−784 – −783
Discordian calendar	666
Ethiopian calendar	−508 – −507
Hebrew calendar	3260–3261
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	−444 – −443
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	2601–2602
Holocene calendar	9500
Iranian calendar	1122 BP – 1121 BP
Islamic calendar	1156 BH – 1155 BH
Julian calendar	N/A
Korean calendar	1833
Minguo calendar	2412 before ROC 民前2412年
Thai solar calendar	42–43

The year 501 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. In the Roman Empire it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Auruncus and Lartius (or, less frequently, year 253 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 501 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

Mediterranean

• Cleisthenes reforms the democracy in Athens.
• Naxos is attacked by the Persian Empire.
• In response to threats by the Sabines, Rome creates the office of dictator.
• Gadir (present-day Cadiz) is captured by Carthage. (approximate date)

Asia

• Confucius is appointed governor of Chung-tu.

Deaths

• Duke Ai of Qin, ruler of the State of Qin from 536 to 501 BC
• Deng Xi, Chinese philosopher