515 BCE
The Second Temple in Jerusalem is completed. Construction of Persepolis begins. Euphronios creates the Death of Sarpedon, a red-figure decoration on a calyx krater. It is now in the collection of the National Archaeological Museum of Cerveteri.
In the 510s BC, the 6th century BC.
Religion & Belief
- February 25 – The Second Temple in Jerusalem is completed.source
Technology & Infrastructure
- Construction of Persepolis begins.source
Births
- Parmenides, Greek religious philosopher (died 450 BC)source
Deaths
- Polycrates, son of Aeaces, the tyrant of Samos from c. 538 BC to 522 BCsource
- Zhuan Zhu, an assassin in the Spring and Autumn period.source
- King Liao of Wu (Chinese: 吳王僚), king of the state of Wu in the Spring and Autumn period from 526 to 515 BC, assassinated by Zhuan Zhu in 515 BCsource
- Euphronios creates the Death of Sarpedon, a red-figure decoration on a calyx krater. It is now in the collection of the National Archaeological Museum of Cerveteri.source
- Pheretima (Cyrenaean Queen), wife of the Greek Cyrenaean King Battus III and the last recorded queen of the Battiad dynasty in Cyrenaicasource
- Arcesilaus III of Cyrene, the sixth Greek Cyrenaean King, was assassinated in 515 BCsource