585. In the sixth year of the _Lydian_ war, a total Eclipse of the Sun, predicted by _Thales_, _May_ the 28th, puts an end to a Battel between the _Medes_ and _Lydians_: Whereupon they make Peace, and ratify it by a marriage between _Darius Medus_ the son of _Cyaxeres_, and _Ariene_ the daughter of _Alyattes_. 584. _Phidon_ presides in the 49th Olympiad. 580. _Phidon_ is overthrown. Two men chosen by lot, out of the city _Elis_, to preside in the Olympic Games. 572. _Draco_ is Archon of the _Athenians_, and makes laws for them. 568. The _Amphictions_ make war upon the _Cirrheans_, by the advice of _Solon_, and take _Cirrha_. _Clisthenes_, _Alcmæon_ and _Eurolicus_ commanded the forces of the _Amphictions_, and were contemporary to _Phidon_. For _Leocides_ the son of _Phidon_, and _Megacles_ the son of _Alcmæon,_ at one and the same time, courted _Agarista_ the daughter of _Clisthenes_. 569. _Nebuchadnezzar_ invades _Egypt_. _Darius_ the _Mede_ Reigns. 562. _Solon_, being Archon of the _Athenians_, makes laws for them. 557. _Periander_ dies, and _Corinth_ becomes free from Tyrants. 555. _Nabonadius_ Reigns at _Babylon_. His Mother _Nitocris_ adorns and fortifies that City. 550. _Pisistratus_ becomes Tyrant at _Athens._ The Conference between _Crœsus_ and _Solon_. 549. _Solon_ dies, _Hegestratus_ being Archon of _Athens_. 544. _Sardes_ is taken by _Cyrus_. _Darius_ the _Mede_ recoins the _Lydian_ money into _Darics_. 538. _Babylon_ is taken by _Cyrus_. 536. _Cyrus_ overcomes _Darius_ the _Mede_, and translates the Empire to the _Persians_. The _Jews_ return from Captivity, and found the second Temple. 529. _Cyrus_ dies. _Cambyses_ Reigns, 521. _Darius_ the son of _Hystaspes_ Reigns. The _Magi_ are slain. The various Religions of the several Nations of _Persia_, which consisted in the worship of their ancient Kings, are abolished; and by the influence of _Hystaspes_ and _Zoroaster_, the worship of One God, at Altars, without Temples is set up in all _Persia_. 520. The second Temple is built at _Jerusalem_ by the command of _Darius_. 515. The second Temple is finished and dedicated. 513. _Harmodius_ and _Aristogiton_, slay _Hipparchus_ the son of _Pisistratus_, Tyrant of the _Athenians._ 508. The Kings of the _Romans_ expelled, and Consuls erected. 491. The Battle of _Marathon_. 485. _Xerxes_ Reigns. 480. The Passage of _Xerxes_ over the _Hellespont_ into _Greece_, and Battles of _Thermopylæ_ and _Salamis_. 464. _Artaxerxes Longimanus_ Reigns. 457. _Ezra_ returns into _Judæa_. _Johanan_ the father of _Jaddua_ was now grown up, having a chamber in the Temple. 444. _Nehemiah_ returns into _Judæa_. _Herodotus_ writes. 431. The _Peloponnesian_ war begins. 428. _Nehemiah_ drives away _Manasseh_ the brother of _Jaddua_, because he had married _Nicaso_ the daughter of _Sanballat_. 424. _Darius Nothus_ Reigns.