502 BC

{{Year nav|-502}} {{BC year in topic|502}} __NOTOC__ The year '''502 BC''' was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. In the Roman Empire it was known as the '''Year of the Consulship of Tricostus and Viscellinus'''<ref>{{cite book |last=Broughton |first=T. Robert S. |title=The Magistrates of the Roman Republic |volume=1 |year=1951 |publisher=American Philological Association |page=9}}</ref> (or, less frequently, '''year 252 '' Ab urbe condita'''''). The denomination 502 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 == <onlyinclude>

=== By place ===

==== Mediterranean ==== * The island of Naxos rebels against the Persian Empire.<ref>Herodotus, ''Histories'', [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0126&layout=&loc=5.28 V, 28–30].</ref> * Rome suppresses the Pometian revolt.<ref>Livy, ''Ab urbe condita'', 2.17</ref><ref>Dionysius of Halicarnassus, ''Romaike Archaiologia'', v. 49.</ref> * December 4—A solar eclipse darkens Egypt (computed, no clear historical record of observation).<ref>{{cite web |title=Five Millennium Catalog of Solar Eclipses: −0599 to −0500 |url=https://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEcat5/SE-0599--0500.html |publisher=NASA Goddard Space Flight Center |access-date=25 February 2026}}</ref> </onlyinclude>

== Deaths == * Milo of Croton, ancient Greek wrestler<ref>Strabo, ''Geographica'', 6.1.12.</ref>

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