551 BC

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Year of the Metal Dog庚戌(at the beginning of earth -Hahn己酉)

• Black-figure vase painting (since 630 BC)

Events

• In the Babylonian calendar, the Babylonian New Year the first Nisannu falls on the 8th - 9th April; the full moon in Nisannu on the 22th - 23rd April and the first Tašritu to the 2nd - 3rd October.

Born

• 551 BC: Confucius, Chinese philosopher and statesman († 479 BC)

Comments

• Year ( 6th century BC)
• 551 BC