584 BC

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Year of the Fire Ox丁丑(at the beginning of Fire Rat丙子)

• Black-figure vase painting (since 630 BC)

Events

• Astyages is according to Herodotus, after the death of his father Cyaxares II, King of the Medes.

Died

• Cyaxares II, King of the Medes