580s BC
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This article concerns the period 589 BC – 580 BC.
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Events and trends
[edit]- February 589 BC—Apries succeeds Psamtik II as king of Egypt.[1]
- 589 BC—Nebuchadnezzar II begins his second siege of Jerusalem.[2][3]
- 589 BC—Battle of An: Jin defeats Qi; these two Chinese states later agree to an alliance.[4]
- 15 January 588 BC—The last phase of Siege of Jerusalem began.[5]
- 587/586 BC—Jerusalem falls to the Babylonians, ending the Kingdom of Judah. The conquerors destroy the Jewish Temple of Jerusalem and exile some of the land's inhabitants.[6][7]
- 586 BC—Death of King Ding of the Zhou dynasty of China.[citation needed]
- 28 May 585 BC—A solar eclipse occurs while Alyattes of Lydia fights Cyaxares of Media at a battle on the Halys river, leading to a truce. This is a cardinal date from which other dates can be calculated.[8]
- 585 BC—Kirrha is destroyed, ending the First Sacred War.[citation needed]
- 585 BC—Lucius Tarquinius Priscus, king of Rome, defeats the Sabines in war, takes the town of Collatia, and celebrates a triumph for his victories on 13 September.[citation needed]
- 585 BC—King Jian of Zhou succeeds King Ding of Zhou as the emperor of the Zhou dynasty.[citation needed]
- 585 BC—Fall of the Kingdom of Urartu following a Median invasion. (The Scythians ruined the Kingdom of Urartu.)[citation needed]
- 585 BC—Croesus succeeds Alyattes as King of Lydia.[9]
- 585 BC—Astyages succeeds Cyaxares as King of the Medes.[citation needed]
- 582 BC—Military clash between Egypt and Babylon.
- 582 BC—Akragas is founded on Sicily.[10]
- 582 BC—Nebuchadnezzar II forces a third deportation of Jews from Judah into Babylonian captivity.[citation needed]
- 582 BC—The Pythian Games are reorganised at Delphi (traditional date).[citation needed]
- 581 BC—The Isthmian Games are founded at Corinth.[11]
- 581 BC—Suizei becomes the second Emperor of Japan.[12][13]
- 580 BC—Cambyses I succeeds Cyrus I as king of Anshan and head of the Achaemenid dynasty.[citation needed]
- c. 580 BC—The Temple of Artemis, Corfu, is built.[citation needed]
- c. 580 BC—The Hecatompedon, a temple dedicated to Athena in Athens, was built at the site later used for the Parthenon.[14]
Births
[edit]- 586 BC—Duke Dao of Jin, ruler of the State of Jin (d. 558 BC)[citation needed]
- 586/585 BC—Anaximenes of Miletus, Greek philosopher (died 526/525 BC)
Deaths
[edit]- 589 BC—Psamtik II[1]
- 586 BC—King Ding of Zhou, king of the Zhou dynasty of China[citation needed]
- April 9, 585 BC—Emperor Jimmu of Japan (according to legend)
- 585 BC—King Cyaxares of Media
- 585 BC—King Alyattes of Lydia[9]
- 585 BC—Rusa IV of Urartu
- 585 BC—Nitocris I, Egyptian priestess[15]
- 582 BC—Duke Qing of Qi
- 581 BC—Duke Jing of Jin
- 580 BC—Cyrus I of Anshan
References
[edit]- 1 2 Clayton, Peter A., ed. (2012). Chronicle of the Pharaohs: the reign-by-reign record of the rulers and dynasties of ancient Egypt (1. paperback ed., repr ed.). London: Thames & Hudson. ISBN 978-0-500-28628-9.
- ↑ Beaulieu, Paul-Alain (2018). A history of Babylon, 2200 BC-AD 75. Blackwell history of the ancient world. Chichester [Weinheim]: Wiley Blackwell. ISBN 978-1-4051-8899-9.
- ↑ Elayi, Josette; Plummer, Andrew (2018). The history of Phoenicia. Atlanta, GA: Lockwood Press. ISBN 978-1-937040-81-9.
- ↑ Zou, Qiuming. 左传 [Zuo Zhuan] (in Chinese).
六月癸酉，季孙行父、臧孙许、叔孙侨如、公孙婴齐帅师会晋郤克、卫孙良夫、曹公子首及齐侯战于鞍，齐师败绩。
- ↑ Note on Jeremiah 52:4 in NET Bible
- ↑ Edwin Thiele, The Mysterious Numbers of the Hebrew Kings, (1st ed.; New York: Macmillan, 1951; 2d ed.; Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1965; 3rd ed.; Grand Rapids: Zondervan/Kregel, 1983). ISBN 978-0-8254-3825-7, ISBN 978-0-8254-3825-7.
- ↑ Young, Rodger C. (2004). "When Did Jerusalem Fall?" (PDF). Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society: 21–38.
The conclusions from the analysis are as follows. (1) Jerusalem fell in the fourth month (Tammuz) of 587 BC. All sources which bear on the question—Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and 2 Kings—are consistent in dating the event in that year.
- ↑ Asimov, Isaac (1965) The Greeks, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, p. 91
- 1 2 Dale, Alexander (2015). "WALWET and KUKALIM: Lydian coin legends, dynastic succession, and the chronology of Mermnad kings". Kadmos. 54: 151–166. doi:10.1515/kadmos-2015-0008. S2CID 165043567. Retrieved 10 November 2021.
- ↑ Merola, Marco (2019). "Sicily's Lost Theater". Archaeology. 72 (2): 51. JSTOR 26822814. Retrieved 17 February 2024.
- ↑ Holt, Andrew; Curta, Florin. Great Events in Religion An Encyclopedia of Pivotal Events in Religious History. ABC-CLIO. p. 70. ISBN 9781610695664.
- ↑ Jien (1979). Brown, Delmer M.; Ishida, Ichirō (eds.). The Future and the Past A Translation and Study of the Gukanshō, an Interpretative History of Japan Written in 1219. University of California Press. p. 250.
- ↑ Suzuki, Masanobu (12 May 2016). Clans and Religion in Ancient Japan The Mythology of Mt. Miwa. Taylor & Francis. p. 136. ISBN 9781317209355.
- ↑ "History of Athens: the early period". Encyclopaedia Britannica. Retrieved 19 February 2024.
- ↑ Aidan Dodson & Dyan Hilton, The Complete Royal Families of Ancient Egypt, Thames & Hudson (2004), p. 247.