556 BCE Nabonidus succeeds Labashi-Marduk as king of Babylon. Pisistratus is expelled to Euboea from Athens, and makes his fortune from Thrace's mines. Labashi-Marduk succeeds Neriglissar as king of Babylon.
In the 550s BC , the 6th century BC .
Nabonidus succeeds Labashi-Marduk as king of Babylon.source Labashi-Marduk succeeds Neriglissar as king of Babylon.source Pisistratus is expelled to Euboea from Athens, and makes his fortune from Thrace's mines.source Births Simonides of Ceos, approximate datesource Deaths Labashi-Marduk, king of Babylonsource Nearby 561 BCE–552 BCE 5 of 5 sourced entries shown. Every line above is quoted from the revision linked beside it, which is 556 BC on English Wikipedia, revision 1356471115, retrieved 2026-09-06. Nothing on this page is written by us and nothing is generated: the sentences are the source’s own, so a claim you doubt can be checked against the exact revision it came from. Text is reused under CC BY-SA 4.0 .