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[[File:Ionian Revolt Campaign Map.png|upright=1.35|thumb|Main events of the [[Ionian Revolt]]]]
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Year '''499 BC''' was a year of the [[Roman calendar|pre-Julian Roman calendar]]. In the [[Roman Empire]], it was known as the '''Year of the Consulship of Aebutius and Cicurinus''' (or, less frequently, '''year 255 ''[[Ab urbe condita]]''''').{{fact|date=May 2014}} The denomination ''499 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 ==
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=== By place ===

==== Greece ====
* After a failed attack on the rebellious island of [[Naxos Island|Naxos]] in {{circa}} [[501 BC]] (on behalf of the [[Achaemenid Empire|Persians]]), [[Aristagoras]], tyrant of [[Miletus]], to save himself from the [[Anger|wrath]] of Persia, plans a revolt with the Milesians and the other Ionians. With the encouragement of [[Histiaeus]] (his father-in-law and former tyrant of Miletus), Aristagoras induces the Ionian cities of [[Asia Minor]] to revolt against Persia, thus instigating the [[Ionian Revolt]] and beginning the [[Greco-Persian Wars]] between [[Ancient Greece|Greece]] and Persia.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Guo |first=Ming |title=Proceedings of 3rd International Symposium on Social Science (ISSS 2017) |chapter=The Study of Two International (Regional) Systems before and after the Greco-Persian Wars |date=May 2017 |chapter-url=https://www.atlantis-press.com/proceedings/isss-17/25876988 |language=en |publisher=Atlantis Press |pages=221–224 |doi=10.2991/isss-17.2017.49 |isbn=978-94-6252-341-8|doi-access=free }}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=FORTIS |first=LUCA |date=2010 |title=Iran's Mediterranean shores |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/42740908 |journal=Rivista di Studi Politici Internazionali |volume=77 |issue=3 (307) |pages=373–381 |jstor=42740908 |issn=0035-6611}}</ref> The pro-Persian tyrant of [[Mytilene]] is stoned to death.
* [[Miltiades the Younger]], the ruler of the [[Thracian Chersonese]], which has been under Persian [[suzerainty]] since approximately [[514 BC]], joins the Ionian revolt. He seizes the islands of [[Lemnos]] and [[Imbros]] from the Persians.
* Aristagoras seeks help with the revolt against the Persians from [[Cleomenes I]], king of [[Sparta]], but the Spartans are unwilling to respond.
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