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Darius I

11 dated entries naming Darius I, drawn from 10 separate years between 549 BCE and 620 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

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6th century BC

  • 549 BCEDarius I, king of Persia (approximate date)source
  • 518 BCEDarius I begins constructing Persepolis, a new capital for the Persian Empire (approximate date).source
  • 510 BCEAryandes, Persian satrap of Egypt (executed by the Persian king Darius I)source

5th century BC

  • 500 BCEDarius I of Persia proclaims that Aramaic will be the official language of the western half of his empire.source
  • 492 BCEThe first expedition of King Darius I of Persia against Greece commences under the leadership of his son-in-law and general, Mardonius. Darius sends Mardonius to succeed his satrap (governor) in Ionia, Artaphernes, with a special commission to attack Athens and Eretria.source
  • 490 BCEDarius I sends an expedition, under Artaphernes and Datis the Mede, across the Aegean to attack the Athenians and the Eretrians. Hippias, the aged ex-tyrant of Athens, is on one of the Persian ships in the hope of being restored to power in Athens.source
  • 486 BCEEgypt revolts against Persian rule upon the death of king Darius I. The revolts, probably led by Libyans of the western Delta, are crushed the next year by Xerxes, who reduces Egypt to the status of a conquered province.source
  • 486 BCEDarius I, king of the Persian Achaemenid Empire (b. 550 BCE)source
  • 460 BCEThe construction of the ceremonial complex of Apadana (the audience hall of Darius I and Xerxes I) in Persepolis is completed.source

3rd century BC

  • 283 BCEThe canal from the Nile River to the Red Sea, initially started but not completed by the Egyptian pharaoh Necho II and repaired by the Persian king Darius I, is again repaired and made operational by Ptolemy II.source

7th century

  • 620Byzantine–Sassanid War: King Khosrau II captures Ancyra, an important Byzantine military base in central Anatolia. After the conquest of Egypt and Palestine, he restores the Persian Empire as it existed in 490 BC under Darius I.source

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