590 BC

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Year of the Metal Sheep辛未( at the beginning of the year metal horse庚午)

  • Black-figure vase painting (since 630 BC)

Events

Politics and World Affairs

  • Between the two expanding empires of the Lydians under king Alyattes II and the Mederreich it comes to acts of war.
  • 590 BC: The Medes under Cyaxares II conquer the capital Tushpa and thus destroy the Urartian kingdom.

Science and Technology

  • In his 14th year of reign ( 591-590 BC ) where the Babylonian King Nebuchadnezzar, the leap month Addaru II proclaimed that begins on March 21.
  • In the Babylonian calendar the beginning of the first Nisannu falls on the 20th - 21st April; the full moon in Nisannu to the 3rd - 4th May and the first Tašritu on the 14th - 15th October.

Culture

  • 590 BC: In Athens the Gorgon Painter is active, an Attic black-figure vase painter in style.

Born

Comments

  • Year ( 6th century BC)
  • 590 BC
April 2014 List of centuries 4th century BC 594 BC 586 BC 580 BC Sexagenary cycle Olympiad Iron Age Archaic Greece Maya civilization Classical antiquity La Venta Mesoamerica Alyattes of Lydia Nebuchadnezzar II Jean Meeus
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