600 BC

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Year of the Metal Rooster辛酉( at the beginning of the year Metal Monkey庚申)

• Black-figure vase painting (since 630 BC)

Events

Politics and World Affairs

Greece

• 600 BC: Cleisthenes of the family of Alkmaioniden is - for the time being, together with Isodamos - tyrant of Sicyon Peloponnesian Polis.
• Theagenes overthrows the oligarchy in Megara and built instead a tyranny.
• Around 600-590 BC ( 595-585 BC? ): First Holy War between Athens and Sicyon on one side and Krissa on the other side.

Asia

• 600 BC: King Alyattes II of Lydia conquered the Cimmerians devastating, thus ending their ongoing since about 100 years incursions into his kingdom.
• 600 BC: In India, the Vedic period comes to an end.

Africa

• Around 620 BC: The Nubian king Anlamani rules over the kingdom of Kush.

Science and Technology

• In the Babylonian calendar, the Babylonian New Year the first Nisannu falls on the 11th - 12th March; the full moon in Nisannu on the 25th - 26th March and the first Tašritu on the 4th - 5th October.
• In the fifth year of the reign of the Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar is the leap month Ululu II for the start on 4 September.ausgerufen.

Culture

• 600 BC: Corinth in the Eurytios crater is made, a column krater im still a relatively new style of Greek black-figure vase painting.
• 600 BC: The Kerameikos painter is one of the first black-figure Attic vase painter in style.
• 600 BC: In Athens, horse-head amphorae are produced in black-figure style.
• 600 BC: The Greek slave Aesop told numerous fables.

Born

• 600 BC: Pisistratus, tyrant of Athens

Comments

• Year ( 6th century BC)
• 600 BC