559 BC
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The year 559 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. In the Roman Empire, it was known as year 195 Ab urbe condita.[1] The denomination 559 BC for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.[2]
Events
- Cyrus the Great succeeds his father Cambyses I of Anshan.[3]
- In the year of his accession (560–559 BC), the Babylonian king Neriglissar commands the declaration of an intercalendary month, so that his first year of kingship begins on Nisan 1 of 559 BC.[4]
Births
- Amitis Shahbanu, Achaemenid queen[5]
Deaths
- Cambyses I, father of Cyrus the Great and king of Anshan[3]