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| 555 BC In other calendars | |
| Chinese calendar | 35th (36th) cycle , year of the fire-horse丙午 ( at the beginning of the year wood-snake 乙巳) |
| Greek calendar | 1./2. Year of the 56th Olympiad |
| Jewish calendar | 3206/07 |
| Roman calendar | from urbe condita CIC (199) |
| Ongoing events | |
| Iron Age III in Israel (since 587 BC) | |
Attic vase painting in Greece:
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| Hallstatt Period in Europe (since 650 BC) | |
| 26th Dynasty (time of the Egyptian Restoration) during the late period in Egypt (since 664 BC) | |
| Eastern Zhou dynasty / period of spring and autumn annals in China (since 770/722 BC) | |
| Ancient Greece : Archaic (since approx. 750 BC) | |
| Dong-Son culture in northern Vietnam and southern China (since around 800 BC) | |
| Middle Preclassic period among the Maya (since approx. 900 BC) | |
| Antiquity in the Mediterranean region (since approx. 1200/800 BC) | |
| La Venta period among the Olmecs in Mesoamerica (since approx. 1500 BC) | |
Events
Politics and world events
- The first year of reign of the Babylonian king Nabonid begins on 1 Nisannu 555 BC. Chr.
- 555/550 BC Chr . : Battos III. succeeds his father Arkesilaos II. King of Cyrene .
science and technology
- In the Babylonian calendar , the Babylonian New Year of Nisannu 1 falls on the 24th – 25th. March, the full moon in Nisannu on the 7th – 8th April and the 1st Tašritu on the 17th - 18th September.
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Died
- 555/550 BC BC : Arkesilaos II , king of Cyrene
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Date in the Gregorian calendar ; In the Julian calendar system , 6 days are to be added to the Gregorian date. The date is based on NASA information ( memento from March 23, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) taking into account the T-Delta. For Babylonia, the time zone surcharge of 3 hours must be taken into account for Universal Time (UT); according to Jean Meeus : Astronomical Algorithms - Applications for Ephemeris Tool 4,5 - , Barth, Leipzig 2000 for: Ephemeris Tool 4,5 according to Jean Meeus, conversion program, 2001 .
- ^ Hermann Hunger: Lunar and Planetary Texts (Astronomical Diaries and related Texts from Babylonia, Vol. 5) . Publishing house of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 2001, ISBN 3-7001-3028-7 , p. 395.