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556 BC - definition of 556 BC in Encyclopedia (190 words) |
 | 559 BC - King Cambyses I of Anshan dies and is succeeded by his son Cyrus II the Great. |
| 556 BC - Pisistratus is exiled from Athens to Euboea |
| 550 BC - Abdera is destroyed by the Thracians. |
| Nabonidus - definition of Nabonidus in Encyclopedia (322 words) |
| Nabonidus, whose relationship with the previous Chaldean Kings of Babylon is unclear, came to the throne in 556 BC by overthrowing the youthful king Labashi-Marduk. |
| In 549 BC he left Babylon to live in Arabia leaving his son Belshazzar behind to rule the empire in his stead. |
| In 539 BC, according to the Hebrew Bible, while Belshazzar and the nobles of the empire were feasting and drinking from the chalices from the Hebrew Temple of Jerusalem, a hand wrote an unknown Aramaic text on the wall: mene, mene, tekel, ufarsin. |
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