-494

This page relates to the year -494 Calendrier Julien proleptic.

Events

Greek world

  • Demolished Ionian League with broad of the island of Ladé by a fleet Phénicie with the orders of the Persian .
    • the Ionian ones revolted join together in the island of Ladè, vis-a-vis Milet, 353 ships vis-a-vis Persians (including 100 of Chios, 80 of Millet, 70 of Lesbos and 60 of Samos). The former tyrants of the Ionian cities, rejoined with Persians, send emissary for transmit a promise of amnesty to revolted, if they are subjected and threatens it of terrible reprisals if they are entêtent. At the time of the battle, Samiens make defection, then the Lesbians and the majority of Ionian flee. Only Tap-holes continues to fight.
  • Millet, besieged by ground and sea by the Persian armies, falls to the autumn and is destroyed. The men are massacred, the women and the children are reduced in slavery and deportees on the Tigre. Persians complete the pacification of the Carie, while their fleet subjects the European coast of the Hellespont and the Chersonèse.
  • Fine of the Revolt of Ionie.

  • Cléomène I {{er}}, king of Lacédémoniens, demolishes the town of Argos in Greece.
  • Fire of the antiquated temple of Didyme in Minor Asia.
  • Construction of a marble enclosure strengthened in the island of Thasos.

Roman world

  • With Rome, Consul At of A. Verginius Tricostus Cæliomontanus and T. Veturius (or Vetusius) Geminus Cicurinus.
  • Threat of secession of the Roman plebs according to the tradition which is withdrawn on the Aventin, seat of the temple of Cérès, and states to want there to found another city that Rome. Menenius Agrippa succeeds in alleviating it by its apologue “ the Members and the Stomach ”. The Patriciens concede the creation of the Tribuns of the plebs.
    • the plebeian ones require a solution of the question of the debts and an improvement of the fate of the poor citizens. Its massive secession alarms the patricians who cannot do without plebs, with triple point of view financial, military and economic. An agreement intervenes at the end which the citizens retained in slavery for debt ( nexus ) will be released and debts of the insolvent debtors abolished. The tribunat is created.

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