540 BC

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Year of the Metal Rooster辛酉( at the beginning of the year Metal Monkey庚申)

• Black-figure vase painting (since 630 BC)

Events

Politics and World Affairs

• 540 BC: Etruscans and Carthaginians, Greeks defeat in a naval battle at Alalia on the east coast of Corsica. The Greek settlers to abandon their colony. They are settling in Elea.

Science and Technology

• In his 15th year of reign ( 541-540 BC), the Babylonian king Nabonidus makes the leap month Addaru II proclaimed that begins on March 8.
• In the Babylonian calendar, the Babylonian New Year the first Nisannu falls on the 7th - 8th April, the full moon in Nisannu on the 20th - 21st April and the first Tašritu on 30 September -1. October.

Sports

• Milo of Croton celebrates as a teenager his first Olympic gold medal in wrestling the boys.

Born

• 540 BC: Amyntas I, king of Macedon († 495 BC)
• 540 BC: Epicharmos, pre-Socratic Greek philosopher († 460 BC)

Comments

• Year ( 6th century BC)
• 540 BC