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546 BC Chr.
546 BC In other calendars
Chinese calendar 35th (36th) cycle , year of the wooden hare 乙卯 ( at the beginning of the year wooden tiger 甲寅)
Greek calendar 2nd / 3rd Year of the 58th Olympiad
Jewish calendar 3215/16
Roman calendar from urbe condita CCVIII (208)
Ongoing events
Iron Age III in Israel (since 587 BC)
Attic vase painting in Greece:
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

  • Third attempt to overthrow Peisistratos in Athens (supported by Lygdamos of Naxos ); this time he remains successful and establishes a tyranny.

science and technology

Died

  • June 17 : Adad-Happe , New Babylonian king mother (* around 650 BC )
  • around 546 BC Chr .: Thales von Milet, Greek natural philosopher, statesman, mathematician, astronomer and engineer (* around 624 BC )

Web links

Commons : 546 BC Chr.  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. 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 .
  2. ^ 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.