# 513 BC

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Calendar year

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513 BC in various calendars Gregorian calendar 513 BC DXIII BC Ab urbe condita 241 Ancient Egypt era XXVII dynasty, 13 - Pharaoh Darius I of Persia, 9 Ancient Greek Olympiad (summer) 66th Olympiad, year 4 Assyrian calendar 4238 Balinese saka calendar N/A Bengali calendar −1106 – −1105 Berber calendar 438 Buddhist calendar 32 Burmese calendar −1150 Byzantine calendar 4996–4997 Chinese calendar 丁亥年 (Fire Pig) 2185 or 1978 — to — 戊子年 (Earth Rat) 2186 or 1979 Coptic calendar −796 – −795 Discordian calendar 654 Ethiopian calendar −520 – −519 Hebrew calendar 3248–3249 Hindu calendars - Vikram Samvat −456 – −455 - Shaka Samvat N/A - Kali Yuga 2588–2589 Holocene calendar 9488 Iranian calendar 1134 BP – 1133 BP Islamic calendar 1169 BH – 1168 BH Javanese calendar N/A Julian calendar N/A Korean calendar 1821 Minguo calendar 2424 before ROC 民前2424年 Nanakshahi calendar −1980 Thai solar calendar 30–31 Tibetan calendar མེ་མོ་ཕག་ལོ་ (female Fire-Boar) −386 or −767 or −1539 — to — ས་ཕོ་བྱི་བ་ལོ་ (male Earth-Rat) −385 or −766 or −1538

The year **513 BC** was a year of the [pre-Julian Roman calendar](/source/Roman_calendar). In the [Roman Empire](/source/Roman_Empire), it was known as **year 241 *[Ab urbe condita](/source/Ab_urbe_condita)*.** The denomination 513 BC for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the [Anno Domini](/source/Anno_Domini) [calendar era](/source/Calendar_era) became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

## Events

### By place

#### Asia

- [Darius the Great](/source/Darius_the_Great) subdues the [Getae](/source/Getae) and east [Thrace](/source/Thrace) in his war against the [Scythians](/source/Scythians). To accomplish this, he builds a massive pontoon bridge across the [Bosphorus Strait](/source/Bosphorus_Strait).[1]

- [Western India](/source/West_India), which includes the [Indus Valley](/source/Indus_Valley), becomes the Persian satrapy [Hindush](/source/Hindush).

#### Europe

- [Amyntas I of Macedon](/source/Amyntas_I_of_Macedon) submits to Darius and offers women as concubines to a Persian embassy. His son, [Alexander I](/source/Alexander_I_of_Macedon), objects to this and tricks them by substituting the women with clean-shaven men (or [512 BC](/source/512_BC)).[2]

- [European Scythian campaign of Darius I](/source/European_Scythian_campaign_of_Darius_I)

## Births

## Deaths

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** ["Persia"](https://www.angelfire.com/empire2/unkemptgoose/Persian.html). *[Angelfire](/source/Angelfire)*.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** Borza, Eugene. In the Shadow of Olympus. Princeton: Princeton University, 1992. Web. 22 October 2014. 101.

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