543 BC

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Year of the Earth horse戊午( at the beginning of the year Fire Snake丁巳)

  • Black-figure vase painting (since 630 BC)

Events

  • In his twelfth year of reign ( 544-543 BC), the Babylonian king Nabonidus makes the leap month Addaru II proclaimed that begins on March 11.
  • In the Babylonian calendar, the Babylonian New Year the first Nisannu falls on the 10th - 11th April; the full moon in Nisannu on the 24th - 25th April and the first Tašritu on the 4th - 5th October.

Died

  • The traditional or uncorrected Buddhist tradition, the potential of the death of Siddhartha Gautama

Comments

  • Year ( 6th century BC)
  • 543 BC
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