550 BC
Millennium: | 1st millennium BC |
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550 BC by topic |
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2461 before ROC 民前2461年 | |
Nanakshahi calendar | −2017 |
Thai solar calendar | −7 – −6 |
Tibetan calendar | 阳金狗年 (male Iron-Dog) −423 or −804 or −1576 — to — 阴金猪年 (female Iron-Pig) −422 or −803 or −1575 |
The year 550 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. In the Roman Empire, it was known as year 204 Ab urbe condita. The denomination 550 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.
Events
- Greek colonization ends (approximate date).[clarification needed]
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- Magonid dynasty.
- The Kingdom of Colchis is established.
- Abdera is destroyed by the Thracians.
- The Temple of Artemis is completed in Ephesus.
- The Temple of Hera I is built in what is now Paestum, Italy (approximate date).
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Births
- Aristodemus of Cumae, tyrant of Cumae
- Hecataeus of Miletus, early Greek historian
- chariot-racer
Deaths
- Cyrenaean King and a member of the Battiad dynasty; he was strangled by Learchus.