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590 BC In other calendars | |
Chinese calendar | 35th (36th) cycle year of the metal sheep辛未 ( at the beginning of the year metal horse 庚午) |
Greek calendar | 2nd / 3rd Year of the 47th Olympiad |
Jewish calendar | 3171/72 |
Roman calendar | from urbe condita CLXIV (164) |
Ongoing events | |
Attic vase painting in Greece:
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Hallstatt period HaD in Europe (since 650 BC) | |
26th Dynasty (time of the Egyptian Restoration) during the late period in Egypt (since 664 BC) | |
Iron Age II C (since approx. 700 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
- There were acts of war between the two expanding kingdoms of the Lydians under King Alyattes II and the Medes kingdom .
- around 590 BC BC: The Medes under Kyaxares II conquer the capital Tušpa and thus destroy the Urartian Empire .
science and technology
- In his 14th year of reign (591 to 590 BC), the Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar II proclaimed the leap month Addaru II , which began on March 21.
- In the Babylonian calendar , the beginning of the first year of Nisannu falls on the 20th – 21st. April; the full moon in Nisannu on the 3rd – 4th May and the 1st Tašritu on the 14th-15th October.
Culture
- around 590 BC Chr .: The Gorgon painter is active in Athens , an Attic vase painter in black-figure style.
Born
- around 590 BC Chr .: Bias von Priene , Greek orator, one of the Seven Wise Men of Greece († around 530 BC )
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d 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.