•
589 BC—
Apries succeeds
Psamtik II as king of
Egypt. • 589 BC—
Nebuchadnezzar II begins his second
siege of Jerusalem. • 589 BC—
Battle of An:
Jin defeats
Qi; these two Chinese states later agree to an alliance. •
15 January 588 BC—The last phase of
Siege of Jerusalem began. •
587/
586 BC—Jerusalem falls to the
Babylonians, ending the
Kingdom of Judah. The conquerors destroy the
Jewish Temple of Jerusalem and exile some of the land's inhabitants. • 586 BC—Death of
King Ding of the
Zhou dynasty of China. •
28 May 585 BC—A
solar eclipse occurs while
Alyattes of Lydia fights
Cyaxares of
Media at a
battle on the Halys river, leading to a truce. This is a cardinal date from which other dates can be calculated. • 585 BC—
Kirrha is destroyed, ending the
First Sacred War. • 585 BC—
Lucius Tarquinius Priscus, king of
Rome, defeats the
Sabines in
war, takes the town of
Collatia, and celebrates a
triumph for his victories on 13 September. • 585 BC—
Ji Yi becomes
King Jian of the
Zhou dynasty of China. • 585 BC—Fall of the
Kingdom of Urartu following a Median invasion. (The
Scythians ruined the Kingdom of Urartu.) • 585 BC—
Croesus succeeds Alyattes as King of
Lydia. • 585/
584 BC—
Astyages succeeds Cyaxares as King of the
Medes. •
582 BC—Military clash between the major
Classical antiquity powers of
Egypt and
Babylon. • 582 BC—
Akragas is founded on
Sicily. • 582 BC—Nebuchadnezzar forces a third deportation of Jews from Judah into
Babylonian captivity. • 582 BC—The
Pythian Games are reorganised at
Delphi (traditional date). • 582/
581 BC—The
Isthmian Games are founded at
Corinth. • 581 BC—
Suizei becomes the second
Emperor of Japan. • c.
580 BC—
Cambyses I succeeds
Cyrus I as king of
Anshan and head of the
Achaemenid dynasty. • c. 580 BC—
Gorgon Medusa, detail of a sculpture from the west pediment of the
Temple of Artemis, Korkyra, is made. • c. 580 BC—
Standing Youth (
kouros) is made. ==Significant people==