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The year '''516 BC''' was a year of the [[Roman calendar|pre-Julian Roman calendar]]. In the [[Roman Empire]], it was known as '''year 238 ''[[Ab urbe condita]]'' '''. The denomination 516 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 ====
* Cleomenes received an embassy from Maeandrius of Samos asking him for help to expel the tyrant Syloson, a puppet of the Persian Empire, which was at the time subjugating the city-states of the eastern Aegean sea.
==== India ====
* The Persian king [[Darius I]] occupies [[Punjab region|Punjab]].

== Deaths ==
*[[King Ping of Chu]] - King of the [[Chu (state)|State of Chu]] from 528 to 516 BC

== References ==
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