560s BC

Millennia:	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:	569 BC 568 BC 567 BC 566 BC 565 BC 564 BC 563 BC 562 BC 561 BC 560 BC
Categories:	Births - Deaths - State leaders - Sovereign states Establishments - Disestablishments

[edit] 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.

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