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Decade
This article concerns the period
569 BC – 560 BC
.
Millennium
1st millennium
BC
Centuries
7th century
BC
6th century
BC
5th century
BC
Decades
580s
BC
570s
BC
560s
BC
550s
BC
540s
BC
Years
569
BC
568
BC
567
BC
566
BC
565
BC
564
BC
563
BC
562
BC
561
BC
560
BC
Categories
Births
Deaths
v
t
e
Events and trends
569 BC
—The 24th
Jain
Tirthankara
,
Mahavira
, takes
Diksha
.
568 BC
—
Amtalqa
succeeds his brother
Aspelta
as king of
Kush
.
567 BC
—Former pharaoh
Apries
invades
Egypt
with Babylonian help but is defeated by
Saite
pharaoh
Amasis II
(also known as Ahmose II).
25 May
,
567 BC
—
Servius Tullius
, king of
Rome
, celebrates a
triumph
for his victory over the
Etruscans
.
566 BC
—The first known
Panathenaic Games
of
Ancient Greece
are held in
Athens
.
562 BC
—
Amel-Marduk
succeeds
Nebuchadnezzar II
as king of
Babylon
.
[1]
561 BC
—All eight planets of the
Solar System
as well as the dwarf planet
Pluto
fall into planetary alignment.
[2]
561 BC/
560 BC
—
Croesus
becomes king of
Lydia
(?)
560 BC—
Neriglissar
succeeds Amel-Marduk as king of Babylon.
560 BC—An aristocrat named
Pisistratus
seizes the
Acropolis
of
Athens
and declares himself
tyrant
. He is deposed in the same year.
c. 560 BC—The statue known as
The Calf Bearer
(
Moschophoros
), from the
Acropolis
,
Athens
, is completed.
Significant people
564 BC—Death of
Aesop
, Greek fable-teller
April 563 BC—Birth of
Siddhartha Gautama
, later known as
Gautama Buddha
, in
Lumbini
,
Nepal
563 BC—Death of
Queen Maya
, mother of
Siddhartha Gautama
562 BC—Death of
Nebuchadnezzar
, king of the
Neo-Babylonian Empire
[3]
561 BC—Death of
Jehoiachin
, the nineteenth king of Judah who reigned for 3 months.
560 BC—Death of
King Gong of Chu
, Chinese king of
Chu
References
^
Sack, Ronald H. (1972).
Amel-Marduk: 562-560 B.C.; a study based on cuneiform, Old Testament, Greek, Latin and rabbinical sources,
. Kevelaer: Butzon und Bercker.
ISBN
3-7666-8552-X
.
OCLC
641649
.
^
Dave Kornreich (2015-07-01). Cornell (ed.).
"When was the last time all of the planets were aligned?"
. Retrieved
2016-07-17
.
^
Mark, Joshua J.
"Nebuchadnezzar II"
.
World History Encyclopedia
. Retrieved
2023-04-18
.
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