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560  560 Nergal-Shar-Usur (Neriglissar)

Becomes king of Babylon.

Croesus becomes king of Lydia? Astyages king of Media.

Amasis king of Egypt

559 Cyrus becomes king of Anshan

5 5 6 Death of Neriglissar; brief reign of Labashi-Marduk; Nabonidus becomes king of Babylon

5 5 5 Nabonidus invades Cilicia 5; 5 Nabonidus in Syria.

5 5 2-54Z? Nabonidus in Teima; Belshazzar crown prince in Babylon.

J50  550 Cyrus overthrows Astyages,

And takes over Median empire.

547? War between Cyrus and Lydia.

Fall of Sardis.

540

5 59 Cyrus invades Babylonia.

10 October: fall of Sippar 12 October; fall of Babylon 29 October; Cyrus enters Babylon. Brief co-regency of Cyrus and Cambyses in Babylonia.

After 539? Cyrus in Central Asia.

530  5 30 (July—August) Death of Cyrus;

Accession of Cambyses.

526 Death of Amasis;

Psammetichus III king of Egypt

525 Cambyses invades Egypt; death of Psammetichus III

528 or 527 Death of Pisistratus. 526 Hippias elected archon.

525 Cleisthenes elected archon. Polycrates of Samos aids Cambyses against Egypt.

5 24 Miltiades II elected archon.

C. 523 Sparta and Corinth attack Polycrates.

PERSIA

AND THE NEAR EAST

GREECE PROPER AND EAST GREECE

520

522 Bardiya revolts in Persia (i i March), seizes whole empire by i July; death of Cambyses.

Bardiya killed by Darius (29 September); Darius king of Persia.

J 22-5 21 Widespread revolt in empire.

520/19 Darius’ campaign against Skunkha the Scythian; Bisitun inscription (?).

519? Death of Oroetes; Darius gains control in Lydia and Ionia

518-514? Conquest of India.

517? Capture of Samos; Lesbos and Chios come under Persian rule.

522 Pisistratus the Younger elected archon.

R. 522 Death of Polycrates.

R. 5 21 Cleomenes elected king of Sparta.

519 Cleomenes invades Central Greece; Plataea becomes ally of Athens.

F. 516 Miltiades II goes to the Chersonese.

514 Hipparchus killed by Harmodius and Aristogeiton.

511 Sparta invades Attica unsuccessfully.

510

F. 513 Darius invades Europe.

512-511 Conquest of Thrace by Megabazus.

510? Otancs and Artaphernes take over western Asiatic provinces.

510 Sparta and the Alcmaeonids expel Hippias.

510-509 Athenian citizen rolls revised.

508 Isagoras elected archon; expels Cleisthenes and 700 families.

507 Cleisthenes implements his reforms.

506 Spartan invasion of Attica collapses, and Athens defeats Chalcis and Boeotia.

C. 505 Athens and Aegina start a long intermittent war.

501 Bouleutic oath introduced and army organized at Athens.

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