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CalendarHome.com - - Calendar Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01) 522 BC - Smerdis succeeds Cambyses II as ruler of Persia. 521 BC - Darius I succeeds Smerdis as ruler of Persia. 525 BC - Anaximenes of Miletus, Greek philosopher (born 585 BC). encyclopedia.calendarhome.com /cgi-bin/encyclopedia.pl?p=527_BC   (329 words)

Encyclopedia: 527 BC 526 BC - Psammetichus III succeeds Amasis II as king of Egypt: Cambyses II, ruler of Persia, conquers Egypt. 521 BC _ Smerdis succeeds Cambyses II as ruler of Persia. 521 BC - Darius I succeeds Smerdis as ruler of Persia. www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/527-BC   (264 words)

History of Ancient Athens - The Legend 638 - 559 BC Solon, the famous statesman and lawgiver, son of Exekestides from Salamis, descendant from the family of Kodros and Neleid's, was born at Athens in 638 BC. 605 - 527 BC Peisistratos, son of Hippokrates, the leader of the Diakrioi and cousin of Solon, was born at Athens. 570 - 507 BC Kleisthenes, the son of Megakles of the Alkmaeonidae family and Agariste, the daughter of Kleisthenes of Sikyon, was born at Athens, in 570 BC. www.sikyon.com /Athens/ahist_eg01.html   (5969 words)

ipedia.com: 520s BC Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01) 525 BC - Death of Anaximenes of Miletus, Greek philosopher (born 585 BC). 521 BC - Death of Zhou jing wang, King of the Zhou Dynasty of China. 520 BC - Death of Zhou dao wang, King of the Zhou Dynasty of China www.ipedia.com /520s_bc.html   (347 words)

Articles - 520s BC   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01) 525 BC - Cambyses II, ruler of Persia, conquers Egypt. 522 BC - Smerdis succeeds Cambyses II as ruler of Persia. 521 BC, October - Smerdis, ruler of ancient Persia www.crunner.com /articles/527_BC   (234 words)

Mahavira: ca. 550 BC 550 BC Vardhamma Mahavira ("Great Hero") was not the founder of Jainism, but he reformed and refined previous teachings of the Jaina tradition. Mahavira was born in 599 BC in Kaundinyapura near modern Patna. Vardhamma Mahavira finally died in 527 BC at the age of 72. www.thenagain.info /WebChron/India/Mahavira.html   (607 words)

Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for 527 He seized control by force in 560 bc, but was overthrown in 554 bc, and driven into exile. With support from Thebes and Argos, he regained power in 541 bc, and ruled as ‘tyrant’ until... Colorado 527 groups raised $17,000,000 and one of the results was a barrage of negative political ads www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=527&StartAt=11   (789 words)

Jainism - Open Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01) In the current world age, the twenty-third Tirthankara was Parshva, an ascetic and teacher, who may have lived around 850-800 BC. The twenty-fourth and final Tirthankara of this age is known by his title, Mahāvīra, the Great Hero (599-527 BC). He too was a wandering ascetic teacher who attempted to recall the Jains to the rigorous practice of their ancient faith. open-encyclopedia.com /Jainism   (2141 words)

Jainism -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01) According to belief, Jain philosophy is an understanding and codification of eternal universal truths which at times lapse among humanity, but later reappear through the teachings of human beings who have gained (Education that results in understanding and the spread of knowledge) enlightenment or omniscience (Keval Gnan). Jainism teaches that "every single living thing is an individual and eternal (A secular form of gospel that was a major Black musical genre in the 1960s and 1970s) soul," which is responsible for its own actions. Jains regard him and all Tirthankaras as a reformer who called for a return to beliefs and practices in line with the eternal universal philosophy upon which the faith is said to be based. www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/j/ja/jainism.htm   (3235 words)

Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Pisistratus or Pisistratus (died 527) Tyrant of Athens (560–559, 556–555, 546–527). , tyrant (527 BC-510 BC) of Athens, eldest son of Pisistratus. His younger brother Hipparchus was closely associated in office with him until Hipparchus was assassinated in 514 BC At first Hippias attempted to work with his opponents, the... www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Pisistratus   (635 words)

history18aancientcivilizations1classicalgreece Between 1100 and 950 BC the Dorians (named after Dorus, the son of Helen of Troy from whom they were supposedly descended) migrated in large numbers from the Macedonian region of northern Greece. When Delos came under threat of attack from another Persian invasion in 454 BC the treasury was relocated to the Acropolis at Athens, while it became apparent that the league had become an Athenian empire. In 335 BC Aristotle established a school in the Lyceum (in the Gymnasium) at Athens. home.att.net /~history240/history18aancientcivilizations1classicalgreece.html   (1682 words)

Travel Services Greece : Aegeas Travel - Tour Operator in Kos Greece   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01) Between 1393-1184 BC it was inhabited by the Achaians while in 1290 BC Eteoklis helped gained independence for the island. In the 494 BC Persians again took over the island and the islanders had to joint Xerxes in his battle against the Greeks (480 BC) and then joined the Greeks in their naval victory in Mykali (479 BC), gaining once again their freedom. In 625 BC a musician, guitarist and poet called Arion were born in Mithymna. www.travelservicesgreece.com /lesvos_info.htm   (1828 words)

The Greeks - Cleisthenes For reasons that are still unclear, but possibly because of the political plotting of his father Megacles, he had already spent a period in exile - a time he spent touring the other city-states of Greece. Then in the year 514 BC Hippias' brother and right-hand man, Hipparchos, was assassinated in a lovers quarrel. The year was 510 BC, the traditional date of Athens' liberation from the tyrants. www.pbs.org /empires/thegreeks/characters/cleisthenes_p4.html   (182 words)

Roman Empire History 121 BC C. Gracchus killed; as tribune he had instituted radical reforms, including the land re-forms of his brother, T. Gracchus, and measure forcing government to supply grain at a fair price; reforms reversed after his tribunate and he was killed in subsequent ri ots. Civil war (49-46 BC) began; Caesar, refusing to disband his army, led his soldiers in the famous crossing of the Rubicon (Jan. 10-11); marched into Italy against Pompey. 44 BC Caesar assassinated (Mar. 15) by opponents who feared his growing power; Cassius, Marcus Brutus, and Decimus Brutus among the assassins; M. Antony rose to power in Rome; began to organize against the assassins, who had fled Rome. www.geocities.com /Athens/Acropolis/5576/roma-T.html   (2623 words)

Jainism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia In the current world age, the twenty-third Tirthankar was Parshva, an ascetic and teacher, whose traditional dates are 877-777 BC, i.e., 250 years before the passing of the last Tirthankar Lord Mahavira in 527 BC. Jains regard him and all Tirthankars as a reformer who called for a return to beliefs and practices in line with the eternal universal philosophy upon which the faith is said to be based. The twenty-fourth and final Tirthankar of this age is known by his title, Mahāvīr, the Great Hero (599-527 BC). en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jainism   (3547 words)

Jainism - Wikinfo Beginning as a Hindu reform movement, Jainism became as an independent religion by the 6th century BC. In the current world age, the twenty-third Tirthankara was Parshva, an ascetic and teacher, who may have lived around 850-800 BC. He too was a wandering ascetic teacher who attempted to recall the Jains to the rigorous practice of their ancient faith. www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Jainism   (5095 words)

Themistocles, Greece, ancient history An Athenian commander of the fleet at the Battle of Salamis against the Persians in 490 BC, Themistocles was to become an important political figure in ancient Athens after Miltiades had fallen. When his opponent Aristides was expelled in 483 BC, he became the leading statesman. Themistocles was said to be an arrogant man, with an inclination toward sly politics, and this led to his ostracization by the Athenians in 471 BC. www.in2greece.com /english/historymyth/history/ancient/themistocles.htm   (314 words)

untitled Unlike Sparta, Athens underwent the entire tyrannical experience to emerge by 500 BC as the leading urban, commercially oriented state of the Aegean world. We know this because after the expulsion of the tyranny in 510 BC, Athenian aristocrats demanded a review of the census roles to remove illegal citizens, offering proof that this had been the program of the Peisistratids. Economic depression possibly consequent to the Persian conquest of Thrace and Macedonia in 514 BC (Darius I) made the Peisistratid successors, Hippias and Hipparchus, unpopular in Athens. web.ics.purdue.edu /~rauhn/athens_tyranny.htm   (2937 words)

Pisistratus - Search Results - MSN Encarta Pisistratus (circa 600-527 bc), Athenian general and statesman, tyrant of Athens from 560 to 527 bc, the son of Hippocrates, and a kinsman and... Hippias (died about 490 bc), tyrant of Athens, one of the Pisistratidae. After 527 bc he continued the policies of his father, Pisistratus, but did... encarta.msn.com /Pisistratus.html   (98 words)

[No title] Confucius (551-479 BC), Chinese philosopher, one of the most influential figures in the history of China. According to tradition, Confucius was born in the state of Lu (present-day Shandong [Shantung] Province) of the noble K'ung clan. In 527 BC he began his career as a teacher, usually traveling about and instructing the disciples that gathered around him. wulei.myweb.uga.edu /FamousWriter/asian.htm   (2645 words)

Hippias - Search Results - MSN Encarta 490 bc), tyrant of Athens, one of the sons of the tyrant Pisistratus. After 527 bc he and his co-ruler and younger brother,... Between the 8th and 6th centuries bc, Athens and Sparta became the two dominant cities of Greece.... uk.encarta.msn.com /Hippias.html   (88 words)

Bodh Gaya: A Good Place for Striving - Bodh Gaya from 500 BCE to 500 CE In about 483 BC, when Yasa toured the main monastic centres in North India trying to elicit support for his censure of the Vesali monks, Bodh Gaya was not one of the places he visited. The relief dates from approximately 150 BC The bringing of a cutting of the Bodhi Tree from Bodh Gaya to Sri Lanka is mentioned in most of the island's chronicles and, after the introduction of Buddhism itself, is perhaps the most celebrated event in the country's long history. Written in Brahmi characters of about the 1st century BC, the inscription is carved on a crossbar which may have been donated to replace one that had been broken. www.buddhanet.net /bodh_gaya/bodh_gaya02.htm   (5300 words)

Greece Project 1 The joint of Attica was carried on by common and peaceful agreement BY the leadership of Athens, and the inhabitants of smaller cities were given by citizenship of Athens. The handed down kingship of Athens was canceled in 683 BC by the nobles, or Areopagus, who controlled Athens until the mid-6th century BC. The second major thing to the handed down power of the Eupatridae, was the code of the Athenian fellow citizen, and leader, Solon in 594 BC, which reformed the Draconian code and gave citizenship to the lower classes. www.internet-at-work.com /hos_mcgrane/greece/eg_greece_6.html   (470 words)

[No title] 205 BC - 181 BC................................................................226 BC - 223 BC Ptolemy VI Philometer....................................................... In 312 BC, taking advantage of Ptolemy's being tied up in a war, he established himself in Syria as king, moving on to conquer as far as the Indus during the next decade. Her influence engaged him in a war with Ptolemy Philadelphus, King of the South in 260 BC, which was terminated in 252 BC by a marriage between Antiochus and Bernice, Ptolemy's daughter. home.earthlink.net /~mcasale/3-2Heads.htm   (3455 words)

Thelemapedia: The Encyclopedia of Thelema & Magick | Jainism In this part of the universe, in the present half cycle of time, the philosophy is believed to have first been given to humanity by Lord Rishabha. In the current world age, the twenty-third Tirthankar was Parshva, an ascetic and teacher, whose traditional dates are 877-777 BC, i.e., 250 years before the passing of the last Tirthankar Mahavira in 527 BC. Jains regard him and all Tirthankaras as a reformer who called for a return to beliefs and practices in line with the eternal universal philosophy upon which the faith is said to be based. www.thelemapedia.org /index.php/Jainism   (2504 words)

Biography and sayings of Confucius Chinese philosopher According to tradition, the Chinese philosopher and sage Confucius (circa 551-479 BC) was born in the village of Zou in the state of Lu (present-day Shandong Province) as a descendant of the noble K'ung clan. His mother died in 527 BC, and after a period of mourning he began his career as a teacher. A marked growth in the power and influence of Lu was attributed to Confucius' reforms such that the ruler of the neighbouring state of Ts'i maneuvered to secure the minister's dismissal. www.age-of-the-sage.org /historical/biography/confucius.html   (957 words)

India Heritage :: History :: Ancient::north India By about 1700 BC, the Harappan culture began to decline, due to repeated flooding of its towns located on the river banks, coupled with the ecological changes which forced the desert to engulf the arable land. The sixth century BC was a time of turmoil, of political and social transformations in India. By the end of the third century BC, most parts of Northern India were knit together into an empire by Chandragupta Maurya who ruled between 322-298 BC. www.indiaheritage.org /history/history_ancient_north.htm   (1896 words)

The Little Magazine - Other - Amartya Sen There is, in fact, plenty of calendrical discussions in the Vedas, and a clear exposition of a system in which each year consists of twelve months of 30 days, with a thirteenth (leap) month added every five years. Second, even though the sensual pleasure of celebrating the completion of the sixth Indian millennium compared with the ending of the second Gregorian millennium may be denied to the Indian chauvinist, it is clear that by the time of the origin of Christianity, there were several calendars competing for attention in the subcontinent. It is remarkable how durable has been the position of the ancient city of Ujjayini (now known as Ujjain), the capital of several Hindu dynasties of India (and the home of many literary and cultural activities through the first millennium AD), as the reference location for many of the main Indian calendars. www.littlemag.com /2000/sen2.htm   (3434 words)

Ancient Greek Rulers quiz -- free game After Pisistrats died in 527 BC, his two sons took over control of Athens jointly. During a botched assasination plot, one was killed and one survived. Pericles had something moved in 454 BC that gave Athens the monetary means to start an empire. www.funtrivia.com /playquiz/quiz685817dc860.html   (216 words)

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