507 BC

Millennium:	1st millennium BC
Centuries:	7th century BC 6th century BC 5th century BC
Decades:	520s BC 510s BC 500s BC 490s BC 480s BC
Years:	510 BC 509 BC 508 BC 507 BC 506 BC 505 BC 504 BC

507 BC in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	507 BC DVII BC
Ab urbe condita	247
Ancient Egypt era	XXVII dynasty, 19
- Pharaoh	Darius I of Persia, 15
Ancient Greek era	68th Olympiad, year 2
Assyrian calendar	4244
Balinese saka calendar	N/A
Bengali calendar	−1099
Berber calendar	444
Buddhist calendar	38
Burmese calendar	−1144
Byzantine calendar	5002–5003
Chinese calendar	癸巳年 (Water Snake) 2191 or 1984     — to — 甲午年 (Wood Horse) 2192 or 1985
Coptic calendar	−790 – −789
Discordian calendar	660
Ethiopian calendar	−514 – −513
Hebrew calendar	3254–3255
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	−450 – −449
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	2594–2595
Holocene calendar	9494
Iranian calendar	1128 BP – 1127 BP
Islamic calendar	1163 BH – 1162 BH
Javanese calendar	N/A
Julian calendar	N/A
Korean calendar	1827
Minguo calendar	2418 before ROC 民前2418年
Nanakshahi calendar	−1974
Thai solar calendar	36–37
Tibetan calendar	阴水蛇年 (female Water-Snake) −380 or −761 or −1533     — to — 阳木马年 (male Wood-Horse) −379 or −760 or −1532

The year 507 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. In the Roman Empire it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Poplicola and Pulvillus (or, less frequently, year 247 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 507 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

Greece

• Cleisthenes takes power in the city-state of Athens and institutes reforms that lead historians to consider him the father of democracy.
• Athenians send an embassy to the Achaemenid satrap of Asia Minor - in the capital city of Sardis - for help in defending against Spartan threats, but refuse to accept Persian terms, which demanded the return of Hippias' tyranny.

Births

• Lu Ban, Chinese inventor and philosopher (d. 440 BC)

Deaths

• Sudharmaswami, Indian religious leader (b. 607 BC)