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Pisistratus

6th century BC tyrant of ancient Athens

10 dated entries naming Pisistratus, drawn from 9 separate years between 608 BCE and 496 BCE. 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.

Also written as Peisistratos (Athens), Peisistratos of Athens, Peisistratus in the source articles; Wikipedia redirects those to the same subject, so their entries are on this page.

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7th century BC

6th century BC

  • 560 BCEPeisistratus seizes the Acropolis in Athens, becoming the city's tyrant for the first time.source
  • 556 BCEPisistratus is expelled to Euboea from Athens, and makes his fortune from Thrace's mines.source
  • 546 BCEPeisistratus takes power in Athens.source
  • 543 BCEPisistratus, tyrant of Athens, purifies the island of Delos. (approximate)source
  • 527 BCE527 BC—Peisistratos a tyrant of Athens dies: his son Hippias inherits his power.source
  • 527 BCE527 BC—Peisistratos, Athenian tyrantsource
  • 514 BCEHipparchus, son of Pisistratus and co-ruler of Athens, is assassinated by Harmodius and Aristogeiton at the Panathenaea.source

5th century BC

  • 496 BCEHipparchos, son of Charmos (a relative of the 6th century BC tyrant Peisistratus), wins the archonship of Athens as leader of the peace party which argues that resistance against the Persians is useless.source

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