560 BC

Millennium:	1st millennium BC
Centuries:	7th century BC – 6th century BC – 5th century BC
Decades:	590s BC  580s BC  570s BC  – 560s BC –  550s BC  540s BC  530s BC
Years:	563 BC 562 BC 561 BC – 560 BC – 559 BC 558 BC 557 BC

560 BC in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	560 BC
Ab urbe condita	194
Ancient Egypt era	XXVI dynasty, 105
- Pharaoh	Amasis II, 11
Ancient Greek era	55th Olympiad (victor)¹
Assyrian calendar	4191
Bengali calendar	−1152
Berber calendar	391
Buddhist calendar	−15
Burmese calendar	−1197
Byzantine calendar	4949–4950
Chinese calendar	庚子年 (Metal Rat) 2137 or 2077     — to — 辛丑年 (Metal Ox) 2138 or 2078
Coptic calendar	−843 – −842
Discordian calendar	607
Ethiopian calendar	−567 – −566
Hebrew calendar	3201–3202
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	−503 – −502
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	2542–2543
Holocene calendar	9441
Iranian calendar	1181 BP – 1180 BP
Islamic calendar	1217 BH – 1216 BH
Julian calendar	N/A
Korean calendar	1774
Minguo calendar	2471 before ROC 民前2471年
Thai solar calendar	−17 – −16

Events

• Croesus becomes king of Lydia (or 561 BC).
• Peisistratos seizes the Acropolis in Athens, becoming the city's tyrant for the first time.
• Neriglissar succeeds Amel-Marduk as king of Babylon.
• Calf bearer (Moscophoros), from the Acropolis, Athens is made. It is now displayed at the Acropolis Museum, Athens (approximate date).
• Berlin Kore, begun in 570 BC, is finished. It is now displayed in Germany.

Births

• Phocylides, Greek gnomic poet from Miletus

Deaths

• Alyattes II, king of Lydia
• Amel-Marduk, king of Babylon
• Battus II of Cyrene, Greek king of Cyrene and Cyrenaica
• King Gong of Chu, Chinese king of Chu
• Leon of Sparta, king of Sparta

References