{{Year nav|-505}} {{BC year in topic|505}} __NOTOC__ The year '''505 BC''' was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. In the Roman Empire it was known as the '''Year of the Consulship of Volusus and Tubertus'''<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=7}}</ref> (or, less frequently, '''year 249 '' Ab urbe condita'''''). The denomination 505 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.

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=== By place ===

==== Roman Republic ==== * A war between Rome and the Sabines begins, concluding in 504 BC.<ref>Livy, ''Ab urbe condita'', 2.16</ref><ref>Dionysius of Halicarnassus, ''Romaike Archaiologia'', v. 37–47.</ref> </onlyinclude>

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