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 * style="width: 3em;" | 608. || Necho of Egypt defeated Josiah, king of Judah, at the Battle of Megiddo.
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 * style="width: 3em;" | 606. || Capture of Nineveh by the Chaldeans and Medes. Foundation of the Chaldean Empire.
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 * style="width: 3em;" | 604. || Necho pushed to the Euphrates and was overthrown by Nebuchadnezzar II. Josiah fell with him.
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 * style="width: 3em;" | 586. || Nebuchadnezzar carried off the Jews to Babylon. Many fled to Egypt and settled there.
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 * style="width: 3em;" | 550. || Cyrus the Persian succeeded Cyaxares the Mede. Cyrus conquered Crœsus. Buddha lived about this time. So also did Confucius and Lao Tse.
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 * style="width: 3em;" | 539. || Cyrus took Babylon and founded the Persian Empire.
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 * style="width: 3em;" | 527. || Peisistratus died.
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 * style="width: 3em;" | 525. || Cambyses conquered Egypt.
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 * style="width: 3em;" | 521. || Darius I, the son of Hystaspes, ruled from the Hellespont to the Indus. His expedition to Scythia.
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 * style="width: 3em;" | 490. || Battle of Marathon.
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 * style="width: 3em;" | 484. || Herodotus born. Æschylus won his first prize for tragedy.
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 * style="width: 3em;" | 480. || Battles of Thermopylæ and Salamis.
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 * style="width: 3em;" | 479. || The Battles of Platæa and Mycale completed the repulse of Persia.
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 * style="width: 3em;" | 474. || Etruscan fleet destroyed by the Sicilian Greeks.
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 * style="width: 3em;" | 470. || Voyage of Hanno.
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 * style="width: 3em;" | 466. || Pericles.
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 * style="width: 3em;" | 465. || Xerxes murdered.
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 * style="width: 3em;" | 438. || Herodotus recited his History in Athens.
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 * style="width: 3em;" | 431. || Peloponnesian War began (to 404).
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 * style="width: 3em;" | 428. || Pericles died. Herodotus died.
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 * style="width: 3em;" | 427. || Aristophanes began his career. Plato born. He lived to 347.
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 * style="width: 3em;" | 401. || Retreat of the Ten Thousand.
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 * style="width: 3em;" | 390. || Brennus sacked Rome.
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 * style="width: 3em;" | 366. || Camillus built the Temple of Concord.
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 * style="width: 3em;" | 359. || Philip became king of Macedonia.
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 * style="width: 3em;" | 338. || Battle of Chæronea.
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 * style="width: 3em;" | 336. || Macedonian troops crossed into Asia. Philip murdered.
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