485 BC

Centuries:	6th century BC - 5th century BC - 4th century BC
Decades:	510s BC 500s BC 490s BC - 480s BC - 470s BC 460s BC 450s BC
Years:	488 BC 487 BC 486 BC - 485 BC - 484 BC 483 BC 482 BC

485 BC by topic
Politics
State leaders - Sovereign states
Birth and death categories
Births - Deaths
Establishments and disestablishments categories
Establishments - Disestablishments

**485 BC in other calendars**
Gregorian calendar	485 BC
Ab urbe condita	269
Armenian calendar	N/A
Bahá'í calendar	-2328 – -2327
Buddhist calendar	60
Chinese calendar	2152/2212 ([[Sexagenary cycle\|]]年) — to — 2153/2213 ([[Sexagenary cycle\|]]年)
Coptic calendar	-768 – -767
Ethiopian calendar	-492 – -491
Hebrew calendar	3276 – 3277
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	-429 – -428
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	2617 – 2618
Holocene calendar	9516
Iranian calendar	1106 BP – 1105 BP
Islamic calendar	1140 BH – 1139 BH
Japanese calendar
- Imperial Year	Kōki 176 (皇紀176年)
Julian calendar	-439
Korean calendar	1849
Thai solar calendar	59

Events

Darius I, one of the greatest rulers of the Achaemenid dynasty of Persia, dies and is succeeded by his son, Xerxes I. During this time the Persian empire extends as far west as Macedonia and Libya and as far east as the Hyphasis (Beas) River; it stretches to the Caucasus Mountains and the Aral Sea in the north and to the Persian Gulf and the Arabian Desert in the south.

Gelo, the tyrant of Gela, takes advantage of an appeal by the descendants of the first colonist of Syracuse, the Gamoroi, who had held power until they were expelled by the Killichiroi, the lower class of the city, and makes himself master of that city, leaving his brother Hieron to control Gela.

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