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560 BC -
Croesus
becomes king of
Lydia
Significant People
May
, 563 BC - Birth of Siddhartha Gautama, later known as
Gautama Buddha
in
Lumbini
,
India
.
561 BC - Death of
Nebuchadnezzar
, king of
Babylon
(estimated date).
560 BC - Birth of
Nabu-rimanni
in
Babylonia
,
Chaldean
astronomer and mathematician (+
480 BC
) (estimated date).