541 BC

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Year of the Metal Monkey庚申(at the beginning of Earth Sheep己未)

• Black-figure vase painting (since 630 BC)

Events

Politics and World Affairs

• Decline of the Lydian empire under Croesus; see: Battle of Pteria. The Greeks of Asia Minor cities (excluding Miletus ) are Persian.
• Battle of Thymbra

Science and Technology

• In the Babylonian calendar, the Babylonian New Year the first Nisannu falls on the 19th - 20th March; the full moon in Nisannu to 1 -2. April and the first Tašritu on the 13th - 14th September.

Died

• 541 BC: Croesus, King of Lydia

Comments

• Year ( 6th century BC)
• 541 BC