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6th century BC: Information from Answers.com (6216 words) |
 | B.C. Lydia's king Alyattes dies after a 57-year reign in which he has defeated the Medes, driven the Cimmerians out of western Anatolia, conquered the Arians to his south, captured and demolished the Greek city of Smyrna on the west coast of Anatolia, and extended his realm to Ionia (year approximate). |
| B.C. The Etruscans are a civilized people who believe in an afterlife, but legend will relate the uprising to the rape of Lucretia, beautiful and virtuous wife of the Roman general Lucius Tarquinius Collatinus, by Sextus Tarquinius, a son of the king Tarquinius Superbus. |
| Pisistratus, Tyrant of Athens in 561 BC, 559 BC–556 BC and 546 BC–528 BC. |
| 570s BC - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (232 words) |
| 579 BC - Servius Tullius succeeds the assassinated Lucius Tarquinius Priscus as the sixth king of Rome. |
| 572 BC - Death of Zhou jian wang, King of the Zhou Dynasty of China. |
| 576 BC - Cyrus the Great, later King of Anshan and Persia, was born. |
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