560 BC
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The year 560 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. In the Roman Empire, it was known as year 194 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 560 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
- Peisistratus seizes the Acropolis in Athens, becoming the city's tyrant for the first time.{{cite web|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Peisistratus | title=Peisistratus Tyran of Athens |author=Chester G. Starr|publisher= encyclopaedia britannica | access-date=2016-07-17}}
- Calf bearer (Moscophoros),Date of creation varies from the Acropolis, Athens is made. It is now displayed at the Acropolis Museum, Athens (approximate date).{{cite web| url=http://www.theacropolismuseum.gr/en/content/male-statues |title=Male statues. Calf bearer - Around 570 BC | author=Acropolis Museum| access-date=2016-07-17}}{{cite web| url=http://www.gettyimages.de/detail/foto/moschophoros-calf-bearer-marble-votive-statue-offered-stock-fotografie/586895089 |publisher=Getty Images | title= Calf beareer, 560 –570 BC | access-date=2016-07-17}}
- Berlin Kore, begun in 570 BC, is finished. It is now displayed in Germany.{{cite web| url=https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/artifact?name=Berlin+1750&object=sculpture | title=Berlin 1750 (Sculpture) | access-date=2016-07-17}}
Births
- Phocylides, Greek gnomic poet from Miletus
- Xenophanes, Greek poet and philosopher born in Colophon (approximate year){{cite web | url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Xenophanes | access-date=February 24, 2024 | title=Xenophanes | series=Encyclopædia Britannica}}
Deaths
- Amel-Marduk, king of Babylon{{cite book| last=Arnold | first= Bill T.| title= Who Were the Babylonians? | editor= Society of Bible Literature | date= 2004 | publisher= Society of Biblical Lit| isbn=1-58983-106-3}}
- Battus II of Cyrene, Greek king of Cyrene and Cyrenaica{{cite book| last= Clayman |first= Dee L| title= Berenice II and the Golden Age of Ptolemaic Egypt |editor=Oxford University Press|location=Oxford |date=2014 | page=27 | isbn=978-0-19-537089-8}}
- King Gong of Chu, Chinese king of Chu{{cite web| url=http://ctext.org/dictionary.pl?if=en&did=1820 | title=Chinese Text Project | access-date=2016-07-17}}
- Leon of Sparta, king of Sparta{{cite book| last= Baumgartner |first= Daniel Lee |title= Logos Arete: A Lexicon of the Ancient Greeks | date= 2008 | publisher=AuthorHouse | location = Bloomington | isbn=978-1-4343-6284-1 }}{{Self-published inline|date=January 2022}}
- Solon Greek poet and statesman (approximate year){{cite web | url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Solon | access-date=February 24, 2024 | title=Solon | series=Encyclopædia Britannica}}
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