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559 BCE

Cyrus the Great succeeds his father Cambyses I of Anshan. 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.

Geopolitics & Diplomacy

  • Cyrus the Great succeeds his father Cambyses I of Anshan.source
  • 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.source

Births

  • Amitis Shahbanu, Achaemenid queensource

Deaths

  • Cambyses I, father of Cyrus the Great and king of Anshansource