559 BC
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The year 559 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. In the Roman Empire, it was known as year 195 Ab urbe condita.{{cite web|url=https://catalog.loc.gov/vwebv/holdingsInfo?searchId=3488&recCount=25&recPointer=1&bibId=8693069 | last=Webster | first= Noah | title= An American dictionary of the English language; exhibiting the origin, orthography, pronunciation, and definitions of words | editor= N. J. White | location= New York | date= 1838 }} The denomination 559 BC for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.{{cite web|url=http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/Saint_Bede.aspx |title= Saint Bede|editor=encyklopedia | author= A. E. Redgate| access-date=2016-07-16}}
Events
- Cyrus the Great succeeds his father Cambyses I of Anshan.{{cite web|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Cyrus-II |title=Cyrus II King of Persia |editor=Encyclopaedia Britannica |author=Richard N. Frye |access-date=2016-07-16}}
- In the year of his accession (560–559 BC), the Babylonian king Neriglissar commands the declaration of an intercalendary month, so that his first year of kingship begins on Nisan 1 of 559 BC.{{cite book|last=Galil |first=Gershon |title=The Chronology of the Kings of Israel and Judah |editor= E.J. Brill |location=Leiden |date= 1996 | isbn=9004-10611-1}}
Births
Deaths
- Cambyses I, father of Cyrus the Great and king of Anshan