560s BC Guide, Meaning , Facts, Information and Description
Centuries: 7th century BC - 6th century BC - 5th century BCDecades: 610s BC 600s BC 590s BC 580s BC 570s BC - 560s BC - 550s BC 540s BC 530s BC 520s BC 510s BC
Events and Trends
- 562 BC - Evil-merodach succeeds Nebuchadnezzar as king of Babylon
- 560 BC - Neriglissar succeeds Evil-merodach as king of Babylon
- 560 BC - Croesus becomes king of Lydia
- 560 BC - Pisistratus siezes the Acropolis of Athens and declares himself tyrant. He is deposed in the same year.
- May, 563 BC - Birth of Siddhartha Gautama, later known as Gautama Buddha in Lumbini, India.
- 562 BC - Death of Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon (approximate date).
- 560 BC - Birth of Nabu-rimanni in Babylonia, Chaldean astronomer and mathematician (+ 480 BC) (approximate date).
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