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Years
Millennium
1st millennium BC
Centuries
7th century BC 6th century BC 5th century BC
Decades
520s BC 510s BC 500s BC 490s BC 480s BC
Years
511 BC 510 BC 509 BC 508 BC 507 BC 506 BC 505 BC

The year 508 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. In the Roman Empire it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Poplicola and Tricipitinus^[1] (or, less frequently, year 246 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 508 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.

Greece

Athenian democracy in the city of Athens is established under Cleisthenes following the tyranny of Hippias.^[2]^[3]

Italy

A war is fought between Rome and Clusium.^[4]
Clusium fights a war with Aricia.^[5]
The office of rex sacrorum is created in Rome to carry out the religious duties formerly held by the kings.^[6]

References

^ Broughton, T. Robert S. (1951). The Magistrates of the Roman Republic. Vol. 1. American Philological Association. p. 3.
^ Herodotus, Histories, V, 66–69.
^ Aristotle, Athenian Constitution, 20–21.
^ Livy, Ab urbe condita, 2.9–13.
^ Livy, Ab urbe condita, 2.14.
^ Livy, Ab urbe condita, 2.2.