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560S BC

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Events and trends
Significant people

Events and trends



568 BCAmtalqa succeeds his brother Aspelta as king of Kush.

562 BCAmel-Marduk succeeds Nebuchadnezzar II as king of Babylon.

560 BCNeriglissar succeeds Amel-Marduk as king of Babylon.

★ 560 BC/561 BCCroesus becomes king of Lydia.

★ 560 BC — An aristocrat named Pisistratus seizes the Acropolis of Athens and declares himself tyrant. He is deposed in the same year.

★ c. 560 BC — Calf bearer (Moschophoros), from the Acropolis, Athens, is made. It is now at Acropolis Museum, Athens.

Significant people



★ c. 569 BC — Birth of Pythagoras on the island of Samos, visionary mathematician (d. c. 475 BC)

★ April, 563 BC — Birth of Siddhartha Gautama, later known as Gautama Buddha in Lumbini, Nepal

562 BC — Death of Nebuchadnezzar, king of Neo-Babylonia

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