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553 Bc

- 590s BC - 580s BC - 570s BC - 560s BC - 550s BC - 540s BC - 530s BC - 520s BC - 510s BC - 500s BC

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 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

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

550 BC - Abdera is destroyed by the Thracians .

550 BC - Cyrus of Anshan overthrows Astyages of the Medes, establishing the Persian Empire.

SIGNIFICANT PEOPLE

558 BC - Death of Solon , Athenian statesman

556 BC - Birth of Simonides Of Ceos (approximate date)

555 BC - Death of Stesichorus , Greek Lyric Poet

551 BC - Birth of Confucius , philosopher