515 BC

Millennium:	1st millennium BC
Centuries:	7th century BC – 6th century BC – 5th century BC
Decades:	540s BC  530s BC  520s BC  – 510s BC –  500s BC  490s BC  480s BC
Years:	518 BC 517 BC 516 BC – 515 BC – 514 BC 513 BC 512 BC

515 BC in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	515 BC DXIV BC
Ab urbe condita	239
Ancient Egypt era	XXVII dynasty, 11
- Pharaoh	Darius I of Persia, 7
Ancient Greek era	66th Olympiad, year 2
Assyrian calendar	4236
Bengali calendar	−1107
Berber calendar	436
Buddhist calendar	30
Burmese calendar	−1152
Byzantine calendar	4994–4995
Chinese calendar	乙酉年 (Wood Rooster) 2182 or 2122     — to — 丙戌年 (Fire Dog) 2183 or 2123
Coptic calendar	−798 – −797
Discordian calendar	652
Ethiopian calendar	−522 – −521
Hebrew calendar	3246–3247
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	−458 – −457
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	2587–2588
Holocene calendar	9486
Iranian calendar	1136 BP – 1135 BP
Islamic calendar	1171 BH – 1170 BH
Julian calendar	N/A
Korean calendar	1819
Minguo calendar	2426 before ROC 民前2426年
Thai solar calendar	28–29

Events

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Art and architecture

• February 25 – The Second Temple in Jerusalem is completed.
• Euphronios creates the Death of Sarpedon, a red-figure decoration on a calyx krater. It is now at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.

Births

• Parmenides, Greek religious philosopher (d. 450 BC)

Deaths

• Arcesilaus III of Cyrene, the sixth Greek Cyrenaean King, was assassinated in 515 BC
• King Liao of Wu (Chinese: 吳王僚), king of the state of Wu in the Spring and Autumn Period from 526 to 515 BC, assassinated by Zhuan Zhu in 515 BC
• Pheretima (Cyrenaean Queen), wife of the Greek Cyrenaean King Battus III and the last recorded queen of the Battiad dynasty in Cyrenaica
• Polycrates, son of Aeaces, the tyrant of Samos from c. 538 BC to 522 BC
• Zhuan Zhu, an assassin in the Spring and Autumn Period.