591 BC
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Year of the Metal horse庚午(at the beginning of Earth Snake己巳)
- Black-figure vase painting (since 630 BC)
Events
Politics and World Affairs
- Zhuang, King of the Sub- kingdom Chu in China and one of the five hegemons at the time of the Spring and Autumn Annals, dies. His successor is his son Gong.
Science and Technology
Imperial China
- Built under Chancellor Sunshu Ao Absperrbauwerks for Quebei Irrigation Project in Shouxian in the Chinese state of Chu is completed. With a height of 31 meters, this building is several centuries, the highest dam of the earth.
Neo-Babylonian Empire
- In the Babylonian calendar the beginning of the first Nisannu falls on the 1st - 2nd April, the full moon in Nisannu on the 14th - 15th April 1st Ululu on 27 - 28th August and the first Tašritu on the 25th - 26th September.
- Babylonian astronomers record in the 14th year of the reign of the Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar ( 591-590 BC), their observation results of the lunar eclipse of 14-15. September ( 13 Ululu ).
Culture
- The poetess Sappho returns from her exile in Sicily back to Lesbos and gathered there a group of students around.
Died
- Zhuang, Chinese ruler of part of Chu State and one of the five hegemons in the time of the Spring and Autumn Annals ( * before 613 BC)
Comments
- Year ( 6th century BC)
- 591 BC