550 BC

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Year of the Metal Pig辛亥( at the beginning of the year metal dog庚戌)

  • Black-figure vase painting (since 630 BC)

Events

Politics and World Affairs

  • Abdera is destroyed by the Thracians.
  • Victory of the Achaemenid Empire of the Medes, whose empire is incorporated into the Persian Empire. Persia is thus adjacent to the Lydians.

Economy

  • Around 550 BC: In the Greek colonies in Asia Minor and on Aegina the first silver coins are minted. Even the tyrant Pisistratus in Athens promotes the coinage.

Science and Technology

  • In the Babylonian calendar, the Babylonian New Year the first Nisannu falls on the 29th - 30th March; the full moon in Nisannu on the 11th - 12th April and the first Tašritu on the 21th - 22nd September.

Culture

  • Around 550 BC: Milonidas, one of the few whose names are known vase painter from Corinth, produces his works in spätkorinthisch - black- style.

Born

  • Atossa, the Persian princess († 475 BC)
  • Around 550 BC: Miltiades the Younger, Athenian military leader and politician († 489 BC)

Died

  • Spitamas, Median husband of Amytis ( * before 565 BC)
  • 555/550 BC: Arcesilaus II, king of Cyrene
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