566 BC

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Year of wood sheep乙未( at the beginning of the year Wood Horse甲午)

  • Black-figure vase painting (since 630 BC)

Events

Science and Technology

  • Nabu - šuma - ukin, son of the Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar II, changes his name in the month Ululu on Amel -Marduk (man of Marduk ).
  • In the Babylonian calendar, the Babylonian New Year the first Nisannu fell to the 26th - 27th March, the full moon in Nisannu on the 8th of April and the first Tašritu on the 18th - 19th September.

Culture and Sport

  • For the first time Panathenaic Panathenaic Preisamphoren be forgiven.

Comments

  • Year ( 6th century BC)
  • 566 BC
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