491 year BC e.

• 491 - Consuls Mark Minucius Avgurin (2nd time) and Aul Sempronius Atratin (2nd time) ^[1] .
• 491–478 - Tyrant Gela, then Syracuse Gelon (c. 540–478), officer in the Hippocratic army. Alliance with tyrant Akragant Feron.
• 491/0 - Athenian archon eponym Hybridid.
• 491 - Cleomen sailed to Aegina to punish the supporters of the Persians. Democrat began to slander Cleomenes. Cleomen entered into a conspiracy with Leotichides II. Leotichid II, under oath, accused Demarath of not being the son of Ariston. Cleomenes attracted Cobon from Delphi to his side. The Pythia confirmed that Democrat was not the son of Ariston. Democrat is deposed.
• 491-469 - King of Sparta from the clan Euripontides Levtihid (d. C. 468).
• 491 - Leotichid II and Cleomen sailed to Aegina, where they took 10 hostages and gave them to the Athenians. Cleomen in fear of the Spartans fled to Thessaly, and then aroused the Arcadians against Sparta. The Spartans were forced to return it. But Cleomenes went crazy and committed suicide.
• 491-480 - King of Sparta Leonid I of the Agid family.
• 491 - Egintsy sent messengers to Sparta with a complaint about Levthichid. The Spartans said hostages need to be returned. Levtihid went to Athens, but they did not give him hostages.
• 491–459 - King of Magadhi Ajatasatru. After many years of stubborn struggle, he defeats Koshalu and subjugates Vrija. The first Buddhist cathedral.

China

• 4th year in the era of the reign of Lusk Prince Ai-gun ^[2] .
• Prince Qin Hui-gun died (he was buried in Tszuyli near Kang-gun and Jing-gun ^[3] ), he was succeeded by Tao-gun (era of reign 490-477) ^[4] . According to Chunqiu , he died in the 10th moon, on the day of Gui-Mao, 492 years old ^[5] , and was buried in the 2nd moon, 491 years old ^[6] .
• Prince Tsai Zhao-hou was about to go to an audience with the us ruler . His dignitaries were afraid of a new transfer of the capital, and ordered the robber Li (or Gunsun Pian) to kill Zhao-hou in the 2nd moon, on the day of gen-xu , and then executed Li ^[7] . He was succeeded by his son Sho (Cheng-hou, era of reign 490-472) ^[8] . Tsai Zhao-gun was buried in the 12 moon ^[9] .
• In the 2nd moon, the Tsai dignitary Gunsun Chen fled to Wu ^[10] .
• In the 2nd moon, the Suns captured Prince Maly Zhu ^[11] .
• In summer, dignitaries Gunsun Xing and Gunsun Ho were executed in Tsai ^[12] .
• In the summer, the Jin detained the Rong Mansion Prince Chu and sent to Chu ^[13] .
• In summer, a fortress was built in Lu in the western suburbs of the capital. In the 6th moon, on the day of the Xin-Yin, the lu Bo Temple burned down ^[14] .
• The Jin commander Zhao Yang took Handan. Zhonhan Wen Tzu fled to Bozen, and Zhao Yang surrounded Bozen. Zhonhan Wen Tzu and Fan Zhao Tzu fled to Qi ^[15] . Rod Zhao took possession of the cities of Handan and Bozhen and began to own them and their lands, which, according to Sima Qian , put him on a par with the princes of Zhuhou. Zhao Yang became Qing ^[16] .
• Tsisky Tian Qi helped the family Fan ^[17] .
• Chu troops invaded Tsai ^[18] .
• Confucius from Chen temporarily came to Cai ^[18] .
• In the 8th moon, on the day of Jia-Yin , the Teng Prince Jie (Qing-gun) died, was buried in the 12 moon ^[19] .

• Hippocrates (tyrant Gela)