560s BC
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Centuries: 7th century BC - 6th century BC - 5th century BC
Decades: 610s BC 600s BC 590s BC 580s BC 570s BC - 560s BC - 550s BC 540s BC 530s BC 520s BC 510s BC
[edit] Events and trends
- 568 BC - Amtalqa succeeds his brother Aspelta as king of Kush.
- 562 BC - Amel-Marduk succeeds Nebuchadnezzar II as king of Babylon.
- 560 BC - Neriglissar succeeds Amel-Marduk as king of Babylon.
- 560 BC/561 BC - Croesus becomes king of Lydia.
- 560 BC - An aristocrat named Pisistratus seizes the Acropolis of Athens and declares himself tyrant. He is deposed in the same year.
[edit] Significant people
- 569 BC - Birth of Pythagoras on the island of Samos, visionary mathematician (+ 475 BC) (approximate date).
- April, 563 BC - Birth of Siddhartha Gautama, later known as Gautama Buddha in Lumbini, Nepal.
- 563 BC - Queen Maya, mother of Siddhartha Gautama, dies seven days after giving birth.
- 562 BC - Death of Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon (approximate date).be:563 да н. э.
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