550S BC

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Events and trends

Significant people

Events and trends

★ Carthage conquers Sicily, Sardinia and Corsica.

★ 559 BC — King Cambyses I of Anshan dies and is succeeded by his son Cyrus II the Great.

★ 558 BC — Hegesias is removed as Archon of Athens.

★ 558 BC — The Chinese state of Jin defeats its rival Qin in battle.

★ 556 BC — Pisistratus is exiled from Athens to Euboea.

★ 556 BC — Labashi-Marduk succeeds Neriglissar as king of Babylon.

★ 556 BC/555 BC — Nabonidus succeeds Labashi-Marduk as king of Babylon.

★ c. 550 BC — Colonisation of Greeks ends.

★ 550 BC — Abdera is destroyed by the Thracians.

★ 550 BC — Cyrus I of Anshan overthrows Astyages of the Medes, establishing the Persian Empire.

★ c. 550 BC — Temple of Hera I, Paestum, Italy, is built.

Significant people

★ 558 BC — Death of Solon, Athenian statesman.

★ c. 556 BC — Birth of Simonides of Ceos.

★ 555 BC — Death of Stesichorus, Greek lyric poet.

★ 551 BC — Birth of Confucius, philosopher (traditional date).

★ 550 BC — Birth of Epicharmus, Greek poet (d. 460 BC).