502 BC

Millennium:	1st millennium BC
Centuries:	7th century BC – 6th century BC – 5th century BC
Decades:	530s BC  520s BC  510s BC  – 500s BC –  490s BC  480s BC  470s BC
Years:	505 BC 504 BC 503 BC – 502 BC – 501 BC 500 BC 499 BC

502 BC in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	502 BC DI BC
Ab urbe condita	252
Ancient Egypt era	XXVII dynasty, 24
- Pharaoh	Darius I of Persia, 20
Ancient Greek era	69th Olympiad, year 3
Assyrian calendar	4249
Bengali calendar	−1094
Berber calendar	449
Buddhist calendar	43
Burmese calendar	−1139
Byzantine calendar	5007–5008
Chinese calendar	戊戌年 (Earth Dog) 2195 or 2135     — to — 己亥年 (Earth Pig) 2196 or 2136
Coptic calendar	−785 – −784
Discordian calendar	665
Ethiopian calendar	−509 – −508
Hebrew calendar	3259–3260
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	−445 – −444
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	2600–2601
Holocene calendar	9499
Iranian calendar	1123 BP – 1122 BP
Islamic calendar	1158 BH – 1156 BH
Julian calendar	N/A
Korean calendar	1832
Minguo calendar	2413 before ROC 民前2413年
Thai solar calendar	41–42

The year 502 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. In the Roman Empire it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Tricostus and Viscellinus (or, less frequently, year 252 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 502 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

Mediterranean

• The island of Naxos rebels against the Persian Empire.
• Rome suppresses the Pometian revolt.
• December 4—A solar eclipse darkens Egypt. (computed, no clear historical record of observation).