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540 BC In other calendars | |
Buddhist calendar | 4/5 (southern Buddhism); 3/4 (alternative calculation according to Buddha's Parinirvana ) |
Chinese calendar | 35th (36th) cycle , year of the metal rooster辛酉 ( at the beginning of the year metal monkey 庚申) |
Greek calendar | 4th year of the 59th / 1st year of the 60th Olympiad |
Jewish calendar | 3221/22 |
Roman calendar | from urbe condita CCXIV (214) |
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
- around 540/535 BC BC : Etruscans and Carthaginians defeat Greeks in a sea battle near Alalia on the east coast of Corsica. The Greek settlers have to give up their colony . They settle in Elea .
science and technology
- In his 15th year of reign (541 to 540 BC), the Babylonian king Nabonid proclaimed the leap month Addaru II , which began on March 8th.
- In the Babylonian calendar , the Babylonian New Year of Nisannu 1 falls on the 7th – 8th. April, the full moon in Nisannu on the 20th – 21st. April and the 1st Tašritu on September 30th – 1st October.
Sports
Born
- around 540 BC Chr .: Amyntas I , king of Macedonia († 495 BC )
- around 540 BC Chr .: Epicharmos , Greek pre-Socratic philosopher († around 460 BC )
- around 540 BC Chr .: Gelon , tyrant of Gela and Syracuse from the Deinomeniden family († 478 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.