Editing 507 BC

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The year '''507 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 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 ==
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=== 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.<ref name="Times-2007">{{cite book |author=The New York Times |editor=John W. Wright |title=The New York Times Guide to Essential Knowledge, Second Edition: A Desk Reference for the Curious Mind |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-BIGv9vIoqcC&pg=PA628 |access-date=31 January 2017 |date=30 October 2007 |publisher=St. Martin's Press |location=New York |isbn=978-0-312-37659-8 |page=628 |orig-year=1st pub:2004}}</ref>
* Athenians send an embassy to the [[Achaemenid Empire|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 (tyrant)|Hippias]]' tyranny.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Waters |first=Matt |title=Ancient Persia: A Concise History of the Achaemenid Empire, 550–330 BCE. |date=2014 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=9781107009608 |pages=84–85}}</ref>
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==Births==
* [[Lu Ban]], Chinese inventor and philosopher (d. [[440 BC]])

==Deaths==
* [[Sudharmaswami]], Indian religious leader (b. [[607 BC]])

==References==
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