4880 Reign of Jehoiachin 599 4881 1st year of Jehoiachin’s Captivity 598 4881 Reign of Zedekiah 598 4884 _Birth of Crœsus_ 595 4885 Mission of Ezekiel 594 4885 _Legislation of Solon_ 594 4889 Siege of Jerusalem 590 4891 Destruction of Solomon’s Temple 588 SIXTH AGE OF THE WORLD. 4891 The BABYLONIAN or ASSYRIAN EMPIRE 588 4893 _Celebration of the Pythian games_ 586 4893 _Era of the Seven Sages of Greece_ 586 4907 _Acme of Esop_ 572 4918 Reign of Evil Merodach 561 4937 Release of Jehoiachin 562 4920 _Reign of Neriglissar_ 559 4920 _Reign of Cyrus in Persia_ 559 4924 Reign of Nabonadius or Belshazzar 555 4924 The First Vision of Daniel 555 4924 The Second Vision of Daniel 557 4931 _Anaximenes flourished_ 548 4931 Cyrus takes Sardis 548 4939 _Pythagoras flourished_ 540 4941 Cyrus takes Babylon 538 4941 _Xenophanes flourished_ 538 4941 Reign of Darius the Mede 538 4941 The Third Vision of Daniel 538 4943 MEDO-PERSIAN EMPIRE 536 4943 1st year of Cyrus the Persian 536 4943 Commission of Zerubbabel and Joshua 536 4944 Foundation of the Second Temple 535 4945 The Fourth Vision of Daniel 534 4948 _Anacreon flourished_ 531 4950 Reign of Cambyses or Ahasuerus 529 4954 _Cambyses conquers Egypt_ 525 4954 _Birth of Æschylus_ 525 4957 _Usurpation of the Persian Throne_ 522 4958 Reign of Darius Hystaspes 521 4959 Missions of Haggai and Zechariah 520 4959 The Second Temple re-founded 520 4961 _Birth of Pindar_ 518 4963 The Destruction of Babylon 516 4963 The Second Temple completed 516 4970 _The Roman Regifugium_ 509 4971 _Expulsion of the Pisistratidæ_ 510 4979 _Birth of Anaxagoras_ 508 4984 _Birth of Sophocles_ 495