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516 BCE

Cleomenes I of Sparta receives an embassy from Maeandrius of Samos asking for help to expel the tyrant Syloson, a puppet of the Persian Empire, which is at the time subjugating the city-states of the eastern Aegean Sea. The Persian king Darius I occupies Punjab (approximate date).

Conflict & Security

  • Cleomenes I of Sparta receives an embassy from Maeandrius of Samos asking for help to expel the tyrant Syloson, a puppet of the Persian Empire, which is at the time subjugating the city-states of the eastern Aegean Sea.source
  • The Persian king Darius I occupies Punjab (approximate date).source

Deaths

  • King Ping of Chu, King of the state of Chu from 528 to 516 BCsource