548 BC

Millennium:	1st millennium BC
Centuries:	7th century BC – 6th century BC – 5th century BC
Decades:	570s BC 560s BC 550s BC – 540s BC – 530s BC 520s BC 510s BC
Years:	551 BC 550 BC 549 BC – 548 BC – 547 BC 546 BC 545 BC

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548 BC in other calendars
Gregorian calendar	548 BC
Ab urbe condita	206
Ancient Egypt era	XXVI dynasty, 117
- Pharaoh	Amasis II, 23
Ancient Greek era	58th Olympiad (victor )¹
Assyrian calendar	4203
Bengali calendar	−1140
Berber calendar	403
Buddhist calendar	−3
Burmese calendar	−1185
Byzantine calendar	4961–4962
Chinese calendar	壬子年 (Water Rat) 2149 or 2089 — to — 癸丑年 (Water Ox) 2150 or 2090
Coptic calendar	−831 – −830
Discordian calendar	619
Ethiopian calendar	−555 – −554
Hebrew calendar	3213–3214
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	−491 – −490
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	2554–2555
Holocene calendar	9453
Iranian calendar	1169 BP – 1168 BP
Islamic calendar	1205 BH – 1204 BH
Julian calendar	N/A
Korean calendar	1786
Minguo calendar	2459 before ROC 民前2459年
Thai solar calendar	−5 – −4

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Events

Diognetus of Croton wins the stadion race at the Olympic Games^[1]
Circa 548 BC the Medo-Persian Empire was established after Belshazzar, the last king of Babylon, was killed. Cyrus I (a.k.a. Cyrus the Great) acceded the throne.^[2] He would remain king until 485 BC. Cyrus I may be the same person as Darius the Mede, mentioned in the Bible (Daniel 6-11), but this is not sure.
The Temple of Apollo at Delphi, Greece was burnt. The Alcmaeonids rebuilt the structure.^[3]

Deaths

Duke Zhuang II Ruler of Qi
Megakles II, Athenian statesman, born 595 BC). He was the son of Alkmaion II, the grandson of Megakles I and married to Agariste of Sicyon.^[4]
Thales (of Miletus), born c. 626 BC, a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher. He was the first natural philosopher who belonged to the Milesian school along with Anaximander and Anaximenes^[5]

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