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HOW IT WORKS
580s BC
Summary
This article concerns the period
589 BC – 580 BC
.
Events and trends
edit
589 BC
—
Apries
succeeds
Psamtik II
as king of
Egypt
.
589 BC—
Nebuchadnezzar II
begins his second
siege of Jerusalem
.
589 BC—
Battle of An
:
Jin
defeats
Qi
; these two Chinese states later agree to an alliance.
January 15
588 BC—The last phase of
Siege of Jerusalem
began.
[1]
587
/
586 BC
—
Jerusalem
falls to the
Babylonians
, ending the
Kingdom of Judah
. The conquerors destroy the Jewish
Temple
of Jerusalem and exile some of the land's inhabitants.
586 BC—Death of
King Ding
of the
Zhou Dynasty
of
China
.
28 May
585 BC
—A
solar eclipse
occurs, as predicted by
Thales of Miletus
, while
Alyattes of Lydia
fights
Cyaxares
of
Media
at a
battle on the Halys river
, leading to a
truce
. This is a cardinal date from which other dates can be calculated.
585 BC—
Kirrha
is destroyed, ending the
First Sacred War
.
585 BC—
Lucius Tarquinius Priscus
, king of
Rome
, defeats the
Sabines
in
war
, takes the town of
Collatia
, and celebrates a
triumph
for his victories on 13 September.
585 BC—
Ji Yi
becomes
King Jian
of the
Zhou Dynasty
of China.
585 BC—Fall of the
Kingdom of Urartu
following a Median invasion. (The
Scythians
ruined the Kingdom of Urartu.)
585 BC—
Croesus
succeeds
Alyattes
as King of
Lydia
.
[2]
585/
584 BC
—
Astyages
succeeds
Cyaxares
as King of the
Medes
.
582 BC
—Military clash between the major
Classical antiquity
powers of
Egypt
and
Babylon
.
582 BC—
Akragas
is founded on
Sicily
.
582 BC—
Nebuchadnezzar
forces a third deportation of Jews from
Judah
into
Babylonian captivity
.
582 BC—The
Pythian Games
are reorganised at
Delphi
(traditional date).
582/
581 BC
—The
Isthmian Games
are founded at
Corinth
.
581 BC—
Suizei
becomes the second
Emperor of Japan
.
c.
580 BC
—
Cambyses I
succeeds
Cyrus I
as king of
Anshan
and head of the
Achaemenid dynasty
.
c. 580 BC—
Gorgon Medusa
, detail of a sculpture from the west pediment of the
Temple of Artemis, Korkyra
, is made.
c. 580 BC—
Standing Youth
(
kouros
) is made.
Significant people
edit
585 BC—Birth of
Anaximenes of Miletus
, Greek philosopher (died 525 BC)
585 BC—Death of
Emperor Jimmu
of
Japan
(according to legend)
585 BC—Death of king
Cyaxares
of
Media
585 BC—Death of king
Alyattes
of
Lydia
[2]
580 BC—Death of
Cyrus I of Anshan
(approximate date)
References
edit
^
Note on Jeremiah 52:4 in
NET Bible
^
a
b
Dale, Alexander (2015). "WALWET and KUKALIM: Lydian coin legends, dynastic succession, and the chronology of Mermnad kings".
Kadmos
.
54
: 151–166.
doi
:10.1515/kadmos-2015-0008.
S2CID
165043567
. Retrieved
10 November
2021
.