550 BC Chr.
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550 BC In other calendars | |
Chinese calendar | 35th (36th) cycle , year of the metal pig辛亥 ( at the beginning of the year metal dog 庚戌) |
Greek calendar | 2nd / 3rd Year of the 57th Olympiad |
Jewish calendar | 3211/12 |
Roman calendar | from urbe condita CCIV (204) |
Ongoing events | |
Iron Age III in Israel (since 587 BC) | |
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) | |
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
- Abdera is destroyed by the Thracians .
- Victory of the Achaemenids over the Medes , whose empire is incorporated into the Persian empire. Persia thereby becomes a neighbor of the Lydians .
- 555/550 BC Chr .: Battos III. succeeds his father Arkesilaos II. King of Cyrene .
economy
- around 550 BC BC: The first silver coins are minted in the Greek colonies in Asia Minor and on Aegina . The tyrant Peisistratos in Athens also promoted coinage .
science and technology
- In the Babylonian calendar , the Babylonian New Year of Nisannu 1 falls on the 29th – 30th. March; the full moon in Nisannu on the 11th – 12th April and the 1st Tašritu on the 21. – 22. September.
Culture
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Pinax des Milonidas
- around 550 BC Chr .: Milonidas , one of the few vase painters from Corinth known by name , produces his works in the late Corinthian black-figure style.
Born
- Atossa , Persian princess († 475 BC )
- around 550 BC Chr .: Miltiades the Younger , Athenian general and politician († 489 BC )
Died
- Spitamas , medical husband of Amytis (* before 565 BC)
- 555/550 BC Chr .: Arkesilaos II , king of Cyrene
Web links
Commons : 550 BC Chr. - collection of pictures, videos and audio files
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.