572 BC
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Year of the Earth Ox己丑(at the beginning of Earth Rat戊子)
- Black-figure vase painting (since 630 BC)
Events
Science and Technology
- In the Babylonian calendar, the Babylonian New Year falls on the first Nisannu 31 March -1. April, the full moon in Nisannu on the 15th of April and the first Tašritu on the 25th - 26th September.
Sport and Society
- Arrhichion wins for the first time the pankration at the Olympic Games.
- Cleisthenes of Sicyon wins the chariot race at the Olympic Games. He then invites men of all Greek polis to a selection process in order to marry his daughter Agariste.
Comments
- Year ( 6th century BC)
- 572 BC