570 BC

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Year of the Metal Hare辛卯(at the beginning of Metal Tiger庚寅)

• Black-figure vase painting (since 630 BC)

Events

Politics and World Affairs

• Amasis received from the Egyptian Pharaoh Apries the order to quell a revolt of Machimoi. Instead, he sits down at the top of the rebellion.

Science and Technology

• In the Babylonian calendar, the Babylonian New Year the first Nisannu falls on the 8th - 9th April; the full moon in Nisannu on 23 April and the 1st Tašritu to the 3rd - 4th October.

Culture

• 570 BC: Corinth in the Dodwell Painter operates a vase painter in the Corinthian black-figure - style.

Born

• 570 BC: Hystaspes, Achaemenid († 495 BC)
• 570 BC: Cleisthenes of Athens, Athenian politician, " the founder of Athenian democracy " ( † about 507 BC)
• 570 BC: Pythagoras, Greek philosopher, mathematician and scientist ( † after 510 BC)
• 570 BC: Xenophanes, Greek philosopher and poet († 470 BC)

Died

• 570 BC: Pittacus, mytilenischer politician, one of the Seven Sages of Greece (* 651/650 BC)
• 570 BC: Sappho, Greek poetess