474 BC

Millennium:	1st millennium BC
Centuries:	6th century BC 5th century BC 4th century BC
Decades:	490s BC 480s BC 470s BC 460s BC 450s BC
Years:	477 BC 476 BC 475 BC 474 BC 473 BC 472 BC 471 BC

474 BC in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	474 BC CDLXXIV BC
Ab urbe condita	280
Ancient Egypt era	XXVII dynasty, 52
- Pharaoh	Xerxes I of Persia, 12
Ancient Greek era	76th Olympiad, year 3
Assyrian calendar	4277
Balinese saka calendar	N/A
Bengali calendar	−1066
Berber calendar	477
Buddhist calendar	71
Burmese calendar	−1111
Byzantine calendar	5035–5036
Chinese calendar	丙寅年 (Fire Tiger) 2224 or 2017     — to — 丁卯年 (Fire Rabbit) 2225 or 2018
Coptic calendar	−757 – −756
Discordian calendar	693
Ethiopian calendar	−481 – −480
Hebrew calendar	3287–3288
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	−417 – −416
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	2627–2628
Holocene calendar	9527
Iranian calendar	1095 BP – 1094 BP
Islamic calendar	1129 BH – 1128 BH
Javanese calendar	N/A
Julian calendar	N/A
Korean calendar	1860
Minguo calendar	2385 before ROC 民前2385年
Nanakshahi calendar	−1941
Thai solar calendar	69–70
Tibetan calendar	阳火虎年 (male Fire-Tiger) −347 or −728 or −1500     — to — 阴火兔年 (female Fire-Rabbit) −346 or −727 or −1499

Year 474 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Medullinus and Vulso (or, less frequently, year 280 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 474 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

Italy

• Hiero I, tyrant of Syracuse, allied with naval forces from the maritime Greek cities of southern Italy defeats the Etruscan navy in the Battle of Cumae as the Etruscans try to capture the Greek city of Cumae. This victory marks the end of the Etruscan aggression against the Greeks in southern Italy and saves the Greeks of Campania from Etruscan domination.
• Taras signs an alliance with Rhegion, to counter the Messapians, Peucetians, and Lucanians, but the joint armies of the Tarentines and Rhegines are defeated near Kailia.
• Hiero builds Castello Aragonese on the island of Ischia.

By topic

Literature

• The Greek poet Pindar moves to Thebes after two years at the Sicilian Court of Hiero I of Syracuse. While at Thebes, he composes lyric odes to celebrate triumphs in the Olympic Games and other athletic events.

Births

• Pandukabhaya of Anuradhapura, ruler of Sri Lanka