Geopolitics & Diplomacy in the 6th century BC

29 sourced entries, 570 BCE to 500 BCE, oldest first. Also see Geopolitics & Diplomacy across every century or everything else in the 6th century BC.

• 570 BCEThe Satrapy of Armenia is established as a province of the Achaemenid Empire. This is the first polity to bear the name Armenia.source
• 561 BCECroesus becomes king of Lydia (or 560 BC).source
• 559 BCECyrus the Great succeeds his father Cambyses I of Anshan.source
• 559 BCEIn the year of his accession (560–559 BC), the Babylonian king Neriglissar commands the declaration of an intercalendary month, so that his first year of kingship begins on Nisan 1 of 559 BC.source
• 550 BCEMago I begins his rule of Carthage and founds the Magonid dynasty.source
• 550 BCEThe Kingdom of Colchis is established.source
• 546 BCEPeisistratus takes power in Athens.source
• 546 BCEJin and Chu agreed to the truce of Mibing, ending their constant military engagement.source
• 543 BCEGuided by Chinese statesman Zi Chan, the State of Zheng institutes a formal code of law.source
• 535 BCEThe Sungai Batu Civilization in Malaysia begins.source
• 525 BCEThe Twenty-sixth Dynasty ends, and the Twenty-seventh Dynasty begins.source
• 522 BCEDecember Darius I succeeds Bardiya as ruler of Persia. He is the son of a government official.source
• 522 BCEBardiya succeeds Cambyses II as ruler of Persia.source
• 519 BCEZhou Jing Wang/Ji Gail becomes King of the Zhou Dynasty of China.source
• 514 BCEKing Helü of Wu ascends to the throne of the state of Wu and orders Wu Zixu to build a new capital at what is now Suzhou.source
• 513 BCEWestern India, which includes the Indus Valley, becomes the Persian satrapy Hindush.source
• 513 BCEAmyntas I of Macedon submits to Darius and offers women as concubines to a Persian embassy. His son, Alexander I, objects to this and tricks them by substituting the women with clean-shaven men (or 512 BC).source
• 510 BCEAriston is succeeded as King of Sparta by Demaratus.source
• 509 BCEThe Roman monarchy is overthrown, and the Republican period begins (traditional date).source
• 509 BCEThe first pair of Roman consuls are elected.source
• 509 BCECarthage signs a treaty with Rome, delineating their respective spheres.source
• 508 BCEAthenian democracy in the city of Athens is established under Cleisthenes following the tyranny of Hippias.source
• 507 BCECleisthenes takes power in the city-state of Athens and institutes reforms that lead historians to consider him the father of democracy.source
• 501 BCEConfucius is appointed governor of Chung-tu.source
• 501 BCECleisthenes reforms the democracy in Athens.source
• 500 BCEStates in existence include the Kingdom of Pratipalapura (centred on modern Bhattiprolu, in Guntur district, Andhra Pradesh).source
• 500 BCEEarly Pandyan Kingdom was ruled by the Pandyas during the second Sangam period.source
• 500 BCEThe first republic in Vaishali, Bihar, India, is founded.source
• 500 BCEDarius I of Persia proclaims that Aramaic will be the official language of the western half of his empire.source