Events and trends

• 568 BC Amtalqa succeeds his brother Aspelta as king of Kush.
• 567 BC Former pharaoh Apries invades Egypt with Babylonian help but is defeated by Saite pharaoh Amasis II (also known as Ahmose II).
• 567 BC-On 25 May Servius Tullius, king of Rome, celebrates a triumph for his victory over the Etruscans.
• 566 BC The first known Panathenaic Games of Ancient Greece are held in Athens.
• 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 (Moscophoros), from the Acropolis, Athens, is made. It is now at Acropolis Museum, Athens.

Significant people

• 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

References

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