630 BC Chr.

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Events

science and technology

• In the Babylonian calendar , the Babylonian New Year begins on Nisannu 1  on March 13; the full moon in Nisannu on March 26th.
• The seafarer Kolaios from Samos is the first Greek to cross the Strait of Gibraltar .

Culture

• around 630 BC Chr .: The painter from Berlin A 34 works in Athens , the first Attic vase painter in the black-figure style.

Born

• (around 630 BC) Sunshu Ao, advisor to the Chinese King Zhuang and Chancellor of Chu († around 593 BC )
• (around 630 BC) Alkaios of Lesbos , Greek poet († around 580 BC )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Date in the Gregorian calendar ; In the Julian calendar system , 7 days are to be added to the Gregorian date.
2. ^ 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.