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'''487 BC''' was a year of the [[Roman calendar|pre-Julian Roman calendar]]. At the time, it was known as the '''Year of the Consulship of Sicinius and Aquillius'''{{cn|date=May 2023}} (or, less frequently, '''year 267 ''[[Ab urbe condita]]'''''). The denomination 487 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 ====
* The island of [[Aegina]] and the city of [[Athens]] go to war. The island has earned the enmity of Athens by earlier submitting to the Persians. The Spartan King, [[Leotychidas]], tries unsuccessfully to arrange a truce in the war.
* The [[Athens|Athenian]] Archonship becomes elective by lot from all the [[Citizenship|citizens]], an important milestone in the move towards radical [[Athenian democracy]]. There are nine [[archon]]s and a secretary. Three of the archons have special functions: the [[basileus]], or sovereign; the [[polemarch]] (originally a military commander); and the archon eponymous (chief magistrate), who gave his name to the year.
* First known use of [[ostracism]], an instrument created in 508 by [[Cleisthenes]] which enabled the electorate to banish for ten years any citizen deemed to be a threat to democracy. It was intended, therefore, as a safeguard against tyranny. An ostracism could be held annually providing a quorum of 6,000 was achieved but, apparently, the Assembly declined to invoke it until 487 when there was a popular reaction against Hipparchos the Pisistradid who had been the peace party archon in 496. He was the first of several citizens to be ostracised through the fifth century.<ref>Bury & Meiggs, page 164.</ref>

====Rome====
* Wars are fought between [[Roman Republic|Rome]] and each of the [[Roman-Volscian wars#Ongoing hostilities from 487 BC|Volsci]] and the [[Roman conquest of the Hernici#The foedus Cassianum - 5th century BC|Hernici]]. Rome prevails in both disputes.

====Kush====
* [[Siaspiqa]] becomes ruler of the [[Kingdom of Kush|Kushite kingdom of Meroe]], likely succeeding [[Amaniastabarqa]].

== Births ==
* [[Gorgias]], [[Ancient Greece|Greek]] [[Philosophy|philosopher]] (approximate date) (d. c. [[376 BC]])

== Deaths ==
*

== References ==
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==Sources==
* {{cite book | last1=Bury | first1=J. B. | author1-link=J. B. Bury | last2=Meiggs | first2=Russell | author2-link=Russell Meiggs | title=A History of Greece (Fourth Edition) | year=1975 | orig-year=first published 1900 | publisher=MacMillan Press | location=London | isbn=0-333-15492-4}}

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