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Decade
This article concerns the period 589 BC – 580 BC.
Events and trends
-
589 BC—
Apries succeeds
Psamtik II as king of
Egypt.
- 589 BC—
Nebuchadnezzar II begins his second
siege of Jerusalem.
- 589 BC—
Battle of An:
Jin defeats
Qi; these two Chinese states later agree to an alliance.
-
January 15 588 BC—The last phase of
Siege of Jerusalem began.
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-
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.
- 586 BC—Death of
King Ding of the
Zhou Dynasty of
China.
-
28 May
585 BC—A
solar eclipse occurs, as predicted by
Thales of Miletus, 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.
- 585 BC—
Kirrha is destroyed, ending the
First Sacred War.
- 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.
- 585 BC—
Ji Yi becomes
King Jian of the
Zhou Dynasty of China.
- 585 BC—Fall of the
Kingdom of Urartu following a Median invasion. (The
Scythians ruined the Kingdom of Urartu.)
- 585 BC—
Croesus succeeds
Alyattes as King of
Lydia.
[2]
- 585/
584 BC—
Astyages succeeds
Cyaxares as King of the
Medes.
-
582 BC—Military clash between the major
Classical antiquity powers of
Egypt and
Babylon.
- 582 BC—
Akragas is founded on
Sicily.
- 582 BC—
Nebuchadnezzar forces a third deportation of Jews from
Judah into
Babylonian captivity.
- 582 BC—The
Pythian Games are reorganised at
Delphi (traditional date).
- 582/
581 BC—The
Isthmian Games are founded at
Corinth.
- 581 BC—
Suizei becomes the second
Emperor of Japan.
- c.
580 BC—
Cambyses I succeeds
Cyrus I as king of
Anshan and head of the
Achaemenid dynasty.
- c. 580 BC—Gorgon Medusa, detail of a sculpture from the west pediment of the
Temple of Artemis, Korkyra, is made.
- c. 580 BC—Standing Youth (
kouros) is made.
Significant people
References