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560 BC — An aristocrat named Pisistratus seizes the Acropolis of Athens and declares himself tyrant!. He is deposed in the same year!.

c!. 550 BC — Colonisation of Greeks ends!.

550 BC — Cyrus II the Great overthrows Astyages of the Medes, establishing the Persian Empire!.

550 BC — Siddhartha Gautama founded Buddhism in Northern India after achieving enlightenment after six years of practicing penance and meditation!.

546 BC — Cyrus the Great establishes a garrison in Sardis and incorporates the Greek cities of Ionia in Asia Minor into Persian Empire!. Thus he gains the important ports that look out to the Mediterranean world!.

543 BC — North Indian Prince Vijaya invades Ceylon and establishes a Sri Lankan dynasty!.

539 BC — Babylon is conquered by Cyrus, defeating Nabonidus; noted in such documents as that of Africanus, Ptolemy, Eusebius, and Diodorus!.

537 BC — Seventy years of Babylonian captivity were over for the Jews!. Babylonian conqueror Cyrus, king of Persia, was letting the Jews return home!. But once back in the Promised Land (537 BCE), their hope of enjoying self-determination as a free nation went unrealized!. They had no king, and the political authority of their governors was soon eclipsed by the religious authority of the high priest, who came to be viewed as head of the nation!. The Jews begin rebuilding the Second Temple seventy years after the destruction of the First Temple, from 520–516 BC; This account is noted in the Old Testament of the Bible at 2 Chronicles 36:20-23 and Ezra 1:1-5!. A few months before 537 BCE, in 538 BCE also begins the reign of the Medo-Persian King Cyrus the Great, according to Biblical writer of 2 Chronicles 36:22!.

529 BC — Cambyses II started to rule!. He is son of Cyrus II!. He conquered Egypt and Cyprus!.

528 BC — Gautama Buddha attained Enlightenment, and began his ministry!.

522 BC — Babylon rebels against Persian rule!. // 521 BC — The Babylonian rebellion against Persian rule is suppressed!.

510 BC — Hippias, second son of Pisistratus and tyrant of Athens, is expelled by a popular revolt supported by Cleomenes I, King of Sparta and his forces!.

***510 BC — Fall of the Roman Kingdom and establishment of the Roman Republic!.

508 BC — Cleisthenes reorganizes Athens!. He creates the deme, a local unit to serve as the basis of his political system!. Citizenship is tightly linked to the deme, for each deme keeps the roll of those within its jurisdiction, who are admitted to citizenship!. He groups all the demes into 10 tribes, which thus form the link between the demes and the central government!. The central government includes an assembly of all citizens and a new council of 500 members!.

501 BC — In response to threats by the Sabines, Rome creates the office of dictator!.

501 BC — Confucius is appointed governor of Chung-tu!.

500 BC — Signifies the end of the Nordic Bronze Age civilization in Oscar Montelius periodization system and begins the Pre-Roman Iron Age!.

500 BC — Foundation of first republic in Vaishali Bihar India!. Www@QuestionHome@Com

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