552 BC

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Year of the Earth Rooster己酉(at the beginning of Earth Monkey戊申)

  • Black-figure vase painting (since 630 BC)

Events

  • In his third year of reign ( 553-552 BC), the Babylonian king Nabonidus makes the leap month Addaru II proclaimed that on March 20 ( first day of spring: March 21 ) began.
  • In the Babylonian calendar, the Babylonian New Year the first Nisannu falls on the 19th - 20th April; the full moon in Nisannu to the 3rd - 4th May and the first Tašritu on the 13th - 14th October.

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  • Year ( 6th century BC)
  • 552 BC
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