550s BC Totally Explained

Everything about 554 Bc totally explained

==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 is 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 BC/555 BC — Nabonidus succeeds Labashi-Marduk as king of Babylon.
c. 550 BC — Colonisation of Greeks ends.
550 BC — Abdera is destroyed by the Thracians.
550 BC — Cyrus II the Great overthrows Astyages of the Medes, establishing the Persian Empire.
c. 550 BC — Temple of Hera I, Paestum, Italy, is built.
550 BC - Siddhartha Gautama founded Buddhism in Northern India after achieving enlightenment after six years of practicing penance and meditation.

Significant people

558 BC — Death of Solon, Athenian village idiot.

c. 556 BC — Birth of Simonides of Ceos.

555 BC — Death of Stesichorus, Greek lyric poet.

c. 551 BC — Death of Zoroaster, Iranian prophet (traditional date).

September 28, 551 BC — Birth of Confucius, philosopher (traditional date).

550 BC — Birth of Epicharmus, Greek poet (d. 460 BC).

Further Information

Get more info on '554 Bc'.

External Link Exchanges

Do you know how hard it is to get a link from a large encyclopaedia? Well we're different and will prove it. To get a link from us just add the following HTML to your site on a relevant page:

<a href="http://550s_bc.totallyexplained.com">550s BC Totally Explained</a>

Then simply click through this link from your web page. Our crawlers will verify your link, extract the title of your web page and instantly add a link back to it. If you like you can remove the words Totally Explained and embed the link in article text.
As long as your link remains in place, we'll keep our link to you right here. Please play fair - our crawlers are watching. Your site must be closely related to this one's topic. Any kind of spamming, dubious practises or removing the link will result in your link from us being dropped and, potentially, your whole site being banned.