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EVENTS AND TRENDS
568 BC -
Amtalqa
succeeds his brother
Aspelta
as king of
Kush
562 BC -
Amel-Marduk
succeeds
Nebuchadnezzar
as king of
Babylon
560 BC -
Neriglissar
succeeds
Amel-Marduk
as king of
Babylon
560/561 BC -
Croesus
becomes king of
Lydia
560 BC -
Pisistratus
seizes the
Acropolis
of
Athens
and declares himself
Tyrant
. He is deposed in the same year.
SIGNIFICANT PEOPLE
May, 563 BC - Birth of Siddhartha Gautama, later known as
Gautama Buddha
in
Lumbini
,
Nepal
.
563 BC -
Queen Maya
, mother of Siddhartha Gautama, dies seven days after giving birth.
562 BC - Death of
Nebuchadnezzar
, king of
Babylon
(approximate date).
560 BC - Birth of
Nabu-rimanni
in
Babylonia
,
Chaldea
n astronomer and mathematician (+
480 BC
) (approximate date).
569 BC - Birth of
Pythagoras
on the Island of
Samos
, visionary mathematician (+
475 BC
) (approximate date).
