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592 BC — Early history of Sudan: An Egyptian army sacks Napata, compelling the Cushite court to move to a more secure location at Meroë near the sixth cataract of the Nile. 590 BC —The Medians invade the Kingdom of Urartu, causing its fall.
September 2 – John IV ("the Faster"), patriarch of Constantinople, dies after a 13-year reign in which he has mediated disputes between the Eastern Orthodox Church and the Monophysites. Muhammad, Islamic prophet, meets and marries Khadija. She is a 40-year-old widow and 15 years older than he.
Significant people. References. 580s BC. Events and trends. 589 BC — Apries succeeds Psamtik II as king of Egypt. 589 BC— Nebuchadnezzar II begins his second siege of Jerusalem. 589 BC— Battle of An: Jin defeats Qi; these two Chinese states later agree to an alliance. January 15 588 BC—The last phase of Siege of Jerusalem began. [1]
571 BC— Zhou Ling Wang becomes King of the Zhou Dynasty of China. 570 BC — Amasis II succeeds Apries as king of Egypt. c. 570 BC—The François Vase, a volute krater with black figure decoration, is made by a pair of Greek craftsmen: the potter Ergotimos and the painter Kleitias.
The year 590 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. In the Roman Empire, it was known as year 164 Ab urbe condita . The denomination 590 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.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. This article concerns the period 599 BC – 590 BC. Sappho and Alcaeus by Lawrence Alma-Tadema (1881).
