560 BCE Calf bearer (Moscophoros), from the Acropolis, Athens is made. It is now displayed at the Acropolis Museum, Athens (approximate date). Berlin Kore, begun in 570 BC, is finished. It is now displayed in Germany. Peisistratus seizes the Acropolis in Athens, becoming the city's tyrant for the first time.
In the 560s BC , the 6th century BC .
Peisistratus seizes the Acropolis in Athens, becoming the city's tyrant for the first time.source Calf bearer (Moscophoros), from the Acropolis, Athens is made. It is now displayed at the Acropolis Museum, Athens (approximate date).source Berlin Kore, begun in 570 BC, is finished. It is now displayed in Germany.source Births Phocylides, Greek gnomic poet from Miletussource Xenophanes, Greek poet and philosopher born in Colophon (approximate year)source Deaths Leon of Sparta, king of Spartasource King Gong of Chu, Chinese king of Chusource Solon Greek poet and statesman (approximate year)source Battus II of Cyrene, Greek king of Cyrene and Cyrenaicasource Nearby 561 BCE–552 BCE 9 of 9 sourced entries shown. Every line above is quoted from the revision linked beside it, which is 560 BC on English Wikipedia, revision 1321464048, 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 .