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|- ! B.C. !! |- valign="top" | style="width: 3em;" | 608. || Necho of Egypt defeated Josiah, king of Judah, at the Battle of Megiddo. |- valign="top" | style="width: 3em;" | 606. || Capture of Nineveh by the Chaldeans and Medes. Foundation of the Chaldean Empire. |- valign="top" | style="width: 3em;" | 604. || Necho pushed to the Euphrates and was overthrown by Nebuchadnezzar II. Josiah fell with him. |- valign="top" | style="width: 3em;" | 586. || Nebuchadnezzar carried off the Jews to Babylon. Many fled to Egypt and settled there. |- valign="top" | style="width: 3em;" | 550. || Cyrus the Persian succeeded Cyaxares the Mede.
Cyrus conquered Crœsus.
Buddha lived about this time. So also did Confucius and Lao Tse. |- valign="top" | style="width: 3em;" | 539. || Cyrus took Babylon and founded the Persian Empire. |- valign="top" | style="width: 3em;" | 527. || Peisistratus died. |- valign="top" | style="width: 3em;" | 525. || Cambyses conquered Egypt. |- valign="top" | style="width: 3em;" | 521. || Darius I, the son of Hystaspes, ruled from the Hellespont to the Indus.
His expedition to Scythia. |- valign="top" | style="width: 3em;" | 490. || Battle of Marathon. |- valign="top" | style="width: 3em;" | 484. || Herodotus born. Æschylus won his first prize for tragedy. |- valign="top" | style="width: 3em;" | 480. || Battles of Thermopylæ and Salamis. |- valign="top" | style="width: 3em;" | 479. || The Battles of Platæa and Mycale completed the repulse of Persia. |- valign="top" | style="width: 3em;" | 474. || Etruscan fleet destroyed by the Sicilian Greeks. |- valign="top" | style="width: 3em;" | 470. || Voyage of Hanno. |- valign="top" | style="width: 3em;" | 466. || Pericles. |- valign="top" | style="width: 3em;" | 465. || Xerxes murdered. |- valign="top" | style="width: 3em;" | 438. || Herodotus recited his History in Athens. |- valign="top" | style="width: 3em;" | 431. || Peloponnesian War began (to 404). |- valign="top" | style="width: 3em;" | 428. || Pericles died. Herodotus died. |- valign="top" | style="width: 3em;" | 427. || Aristophanes began his career. Plato born. He lived to 347. |- valign="top" | style="width: 3em;" | 401. || Retreat of the Ten Thousand. |- valign="top" | style="width: 3em;" | 390. || Brennus sacked Rome. |- valign="top" | style="width: 3em;" | 366. || Camillus built the Temple of Concord. |- valign="top" | style="width: 3em;" | 359. || Philip became king of Macedonia. |- valign="top" | style="width: 3em;" | 338. || Battle of Chæronea. |- valign="top" | style="width: 3em;" | 336. || Macedonian troops crossed into Asia. Philip murdered. |}