Events and trends

• 568 BC ? Amtalqa succeeds his brother Aspelta as king of Kush.
• 562 BC ? Amel-Marduk succeeds Nebuchadnezzar II as king of Babylon.
• 560 BC ? Neriglissar succeeds Amel-Marduk as king of Babylon.
• 560 BC/561 BC ? Croesus becomes king of Lydia.
• 560 BC ? An aristocrat named Pisistratus seizes the Acropolis of Athens and declares himself tyrant. He is deposed in the same year.
• c. 560 BC ? Calf bearer (Moschophoros), from the Acropolis, Athens, is made. It is now at Acropolis Museum, Athens.

Significant people

• c. 569 BC ? Birth of Pythagoras on the island of Samos, visionary mathematician (d. c. 475 BC)
• April, 563 BC ? Birth of Siddhartha Gautama, later known as Gautama Buddha in Lumbini, Nepal
• 563 BC ? Death of Queen Maya, mother of Siddhartha Gautama
• 562 BC ? Death of Nebuchadnezzar, king of Neo-Babylonia

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