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Events and trends
★
568 BC —
Amtalqa succeeds his brother
Aspelta as king of
Kush.
★
562 BC —
Amel-Marduk succeeds
Nebuchadnezzar II as king of
Babylon.
★
560 BC —
Neriglissar succeeds
Amel-Marduk as king of
Babylon.
★ 560 BC/
561 BC —
Croesus 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