year 550 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. In the Roman Empire, it was known as year 204 Ab urbe condita. The denomination 550 BC for this...

This article concerns the period 559 BC–550 BC. Carthage conquers Sicily, Sardinia, and Corsica. 559 BC—King Cambyses I of Anshan dies and is succeeded...

China. The factory produced shovel-shaped bronze coins between 640 B.C. and 550 B.C., making it the oldest securely-dated minting-site. The earliest coins...

into the early Republic around 300 BC, when the so-called "Polybian" or manipular legion was introduced. Until c. 550 BC, there was probably no "national"...

BC/555 BC: Nabonidus succeeds Labashi-Marduk as King of Babylon. 551 BC: Confucius was born. 550 BC: Abdera is destroyed by the Thracians. 553–550 BC:...

Neo-Assyrian Empire (934 BC – 609 BC) Neo-Babylonian Empire (626 BC – 539 BC), Medes (678 BC – 549 BC) Imperial Period Persian Empires (550 BC – 651 AD) Achaemenid...

they date the Median revolt against Assyria to 672 BC, and the end of the Median dynasty to 550 BC. He offered a chronology in which Scythian rule overlaps...

Persians emerged to challenge Median supremacy on the Iranian plateau. By 550 BC, the Persians had replaced Median rule with their own dominion and even...

with the Nok culture c. 550 BC and spread by the Bantu expansion. There are also cast iron artefacts in China from about 500 BC, but use of iron was minimal...

delivered to Lycurgus, the semi-legendary Spartan lawgiver (fl. 8th century BC). According to the report by Herodotus (Histories A.65, 2–4), Lycurgus visited...