The 6th century BCE: key events

Chronyas has 224 events dated to the 6th century BCE (600 BCE to 501 BCE), during the Ancient civilizations. Below are the most notable ones, in date order.

Most of the events in this century belong to Civilizations & archaeology and Wars, politics & history.

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from 600 BCE to 100 CEOrigins of Maiden Castle
from 600 BCE to 200 BCEOrdos culture
600 BCEOrigins of Tyras
600 BCEOrigins of Massalia
from 600 BCE to 500 BCEArchaic Greece
600 BCEFounding of Milan
from 600 BCE to 1 BCEJastorf culture
600 BCEBirth of Cyrus the Great
from 600 BCE to 345 BCEMahajanapada
from 599 BCE to 853 CEOrigins of Kamarina
from 16 March 597 BCE to 1 January 538 BCEBabylonian captivity
596 BCEBirth of Croesus
from 595 BCE to 585 BCEFirst Sacred War
c. 595 BCESolon reforms Athens
from 589 BCE to 587 BCESiege of Jerusalem
587 BCENebuchadnezzar destroys Jerusalem and the First Temple
585 BCEBirth of Anaximenes of Miletus
28 May 585 BCEEclipse of Thales
from 580 BCE to 265 BCEGreek-Punic Wars
c. 580 BCEOrigins of Agrigento
from 578 BCE to 534 BCEServius Tullius becomes King of Rome
575 BCEIshtar Gate
c. 575 BCEOrigins of Varna
570 BCEBirth of Xenophanes
570 BCEDeath of Sappho
from 570 BCE to 526 BCEAmasis II becomes Pharaoh
564 BCEDeath of Aesop
c. 561 BCEDeath of Nebuchadnezzar II
560 BCEOrigins of Nymphaion
559 BCEBirth of Cambyses II
from 559 BCE to 530 BCECyrus the Great becomes King of Kings
from 556 BCE to 539 BCENabonidus becomes King of Babylon
from 553 BCE to 428 CEKingdom of Armenia
from 553 BCE to 550 BCEMedo-Persian conflict
c. 550s BCEConstruction of Circus Maximus
551 BCEDeath of Zoroaster
551 BCEBirth of Confucius
550 BCEFounding of Verona
from 550 BCE to 366 BCEFounding of Peloponnesian League
from 550 BCE to 330 BCEAchaemenid Empire
550 BCEBirth of Darius I
from 550 BCE to 1979Persian Empire
c. 550 BCEEruption of Tongariro
c. 550 BCEEruption of Shikotsu
546 BCEDeath of Anaximander
from 544 BCE to 413 BCEHaryanka dynasty
544 BCEBirth of Sun Tzu
543 BCEOrigins of Phanagoria
540 BCEOrigins of Barca
539 BCEFall of Babylon
c. 539 BCEMaking of the Cyrus cylinder
535 BCEBirth of Heraclitus
c. 535 BCEGreek tragedy is born at the Athenian festival of Dionysus
from 534 BCE to 509 BCELucius Tarquinius Superbus becomes King of Rome
from 530 BCE to 522 BCECambyses II becomes King of Kings
530 BCEOrigins of Lilibaeum
530 BCEConstruction of Tomb of Cyrus the Great
from 530 BCE to 70 CESecond Temple period
530 BCEDeath of Cyrus the Great
c. 530 BCEEruption of St. Helens
from 525 BCE to 522 BCECambyses II becomes Pharaoh
525 BCEBirth of Aeschylus
from 525 BCE to 404 BCETwenty-seventh Dynasty of Egypt
524 BCEBirth of Themistocles
from 29 September 522 BCE to 1 October 486 BCEDarius I becomes Pharaoh
c. 520s BCEPyrgi Tablets
c. 520 BCECarving of the Behistun inscription
520 BCEBirth of Panini
519 BCEBirth of Xerxes I
517 BCEBirth of Pindar
from 516 BCE to 70 CESecond Temple Judaism
515 BCEBirth of Parmenides
from c. 510s BCE to 330s BCEOrigins of Persepolis
from c. 510 BCE to 323 BCEClassical Greece
c. 510 BCEThe Roman Republic is founded
from 509 BCE to 27 BCERoman Republic
509 BCEOrigins of Temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus
c. 509 BCECleisthenes lays the foundations of Athenian democracy
c. 500s BCEOrigins of Delhi
from c. 500s BCE to 620sZhangzhung

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