560 BC

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Year of the Metal Ox辛丑( at the beginning of the year metal rat庚子)

  • Black-figure vase painting (since 630 BC)

Events

Politics and World Affairs

  • The Neo-Babylonian King Amel -Marduk is murdered in his second year of reign. He is followed by his brother Nergal - sarra - usur ( accession year ). His first arrangement as heir to the throne comes from August 4.
  • The Greek politicians Peisistratos storms with a band of armed followers of the Acropolis and can be proclaimed tyrant. He is a little later overthrown by Lycurgus and Megakles.

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 the 2nd - 3rd April and the first Tašritu on the 12th - 13th September.

Culture

  • 560 BC: The Amphiaraos painter made ​​in Corinth Amphiaraos the crater. The column krater is one of the major works of the red-ground vase painting of Corinth.
  • 560 BC: The Tydeus Painter made ​​in Corinth numerous spätkorinthisch - black- vases.

Died

  • Amel -Marduk, the Babylonian king
  • 560 BC: Solon, Athenian politician and reformer
  • 565/560 BC: Battus II, King of Cyrene
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