503 BC

{{Year nav|-503}} {{BC year in topic|503}} __NOTOC__ The year '''503 BC''' was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. In the Roman Empire it was known as the '''Year of the Consulship of Lanatus and Tubertus''' (or, less frequently, '''year 251 '' Ab urbe condita'''''). The denomination 503 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 ===

==== Roman Republic ==== * The Latin towns of Pometia and Cora, with the assistance of the Aurunci, revolt against Rome.</onlyinclude>

==Births== *Zhuansun Shi, a disciple of Confucius<ref>{{cite book |author=Confucius |author-link=Confucius |editor-last=Huang |editor-first=Chichung |title=The Analects of Confucius |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wqym0cOd33MC&pg=PA203 |year=1997 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-506157-4 |page=203}}</ref>

==Deaths== *Publius Valerius Publicola (or Poplicola, his agnomen meaning "friend of the people"), one of four Roman aristocrats who led the overthrow of the monarchy.

==References== {{reflist}}

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