510S BC

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Events and trends

Significant people

Births

Events and trends

★ 519 BC — Zhou Jing Wang becomes King of the Zhou Dynasty of China.

★ c. 518 BC — Darius I began construction of Parsa (Persepolis).

★ 518 BC — Construction of Apadana (audience hall) of Darius and Xerxes, ceremonial complex, at Persepolis, Iran started.

★ 516 BC — Indian subcontinent — Occupation of Punjab is completed by the Persian King Gustasp.

★ February 25, 516 BC — Construction is completed on the Temple in Jerusalem.

★ c. 515 BC — Euphronios makes Death of Sarpedon, red-figure decoration on a calyx krater. it is now at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

★ 514 BC — King Helu of Wu establishes "Great City of Helu", the ancient name for Suzhou, as his capital in China.

★ 513 BC — Darius the Great subdues the Getae and east Thrace in his war against the Scythians.

★ c. 513 BC — Western India becomes the Persian satrapy of Hindush, which included the valley of the Indus River.

★ 510 BC — Hippias, second son of Pisistratus and tyrant of Athens, is expelled by a popular revolt supported by Cleomenes I, King of Sparta and his forces.

★ 510 BC — End of reign of Lucius Tarquinius Superbus, last king of the traditional seven Kings of Rome.

★ 510 BC — Fall of the Roman Kingdom and establishment of the Roman Republic.

★ 510 BC — Demaratus succeeds Ariston as king of Sparta. (approximate date)

★ 510 BC — Defeat and destruction of Sybaris.

★ c. 510 BC–430 BC — Stelae were banned in Athenian cemeteries.

Significant people

★ Euphronios, Greek painter

Births

★ c. 519 BC — Xerxes I of Persia