495 BC

Millennium:	1st millennium BC
Centuries:	6th century BC – 5th century BC – 4th century BC
Decades:	520s BC  510s BC  500s BC  – 490s BC –  480s BC  470s BC  460s BC
Years:	498 BC 497 BC 496 BC – 495 BC – 494 BC 493 BC 492 BC

Year 495 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar.

Events

By place

Roman Republic

• A temple is built on the Circus Maximus, between the Aventine and Palatine hills, in Rome, in honour of the god Mercury.

China

• King Fuchai of Wu ascends to the throne after his father, King Helü of Wu, reigning as the last king of Wu until 473 BC.

Births

• Pericles, Athenian politician (d. 429 BC)