Exploration & Expansion in the 6th century BC

13 sourced entries, 550 BCE to 500 BCE, oldest first. Also see Exploration & Expansion across every century or everything else in the 6th century BC.

• 550 BCEGreek colonization ends (approximate date).source
• 550 BCESiddhartha Gautama founds Buddhism in Northern India after achieving enlightenment after six years of practicing penance and meditation.source
• 544 BCEPeople of Teos migrate to Abdera, Thrace to escape the yoke of Persia.source
• 534 BCEThe Etruscan founded the city of Felsina, that later will become the modern city of Bologna.source
• 532 BCEPythagoras arrives in the Greek colony of Croton (modern-day Crotone) in Magna Graecia and founds the philosophical school of Pythagoreanism (approximate date).source
• 519 BCEHerodotus tells that Cleomenes happened to be in the vicinity of Plataia, when the Plataians requested an alliance with Sparta, which he rejected, but instead he advised them to ally with Athens, because he wanted to stir a border conflict between Thebes and Athens, two of the most powerful poleis of central Greece.source
• 513 BCEEuropean Scythian campaign of Darius Isource
• 510 BCEScylax of Caryanda becomes the first mariner to have passed the Indian Ocean.source
• 507 BCEAthenians send an embassy to the Achaemenid satrap of Asia Minor - in the capital city of Sardis - for help in defending against Spartan threats, but refuse to accept Persian terms, which demanded the return of Hippias' tyranny.source
• 500 BCEHanno the Navigator's naval exploration of the western coast of Africa could have reached as far south as Gabon.source
• 500 BCEBantu-speaking people migrate into south-west Uganda from Central Africa. (approximate date)source
• 500 BCERefugees from Teos resettle Abdera.source
• 500 BCEThe Hutu tribe emerges around this time, in Middle and Southern Africa. (approximate date)source