Editing 560 BC

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The year '''560 BC''' was a year of the [[Roman calendar|pre-Julian Roman calendar]]. In the [[Roman Empire]], it was known as '''year 194 ''[[Ab urbe condita]]'''''.<ref name="RC1">{{cite web|url=https://catalog.loc.gov/vwebv/holdingsInfo?searchId=3488&recCount=25&recPointer=1&bibId=8693069 | last=Webster | first= Noah | title= An American dictionary of the English language; exhibiting the origin, orthography, pronunciation, and definitions of words | editor= N. J. White | location= New York | date= 1838 }}</ref> 
The denomination 560 BC for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the [[Anno Domini]] [[calendar era]] became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.<ref name="ECB1">{{cite web|url=http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/Saint_Bede.aspx |title= Saint Bede|editor=encyklopedia | author= A. E. Redgate| access-date=2016-07-16}}</ref>

==Events==
* [[Peisistratus]] seizes the Acropolis in [[Classical Athens|Athens]], becoming the city's tyrant for the first time.<ref name="ECB3">{{cite web|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Peisistratus | title=Peisistratus Tyran of Athens |author=Chester G. Starr|publisher= encyclopaedia britannica | access-date=2016-07-17}}</ref>
* Calf bearer ([[Moscophoros]]),<ref name= MOS1 group="N">Date of creation varies</ref> from the [[Acropolis]], [[Athens]] is made. It is now displayed at the [[Acropolis Museum]], [[Athens]] (approximate date).<ref name="GRA1">{{cite web| url=http://www.theacropolismuseum.gr/en/content/male-statues |title=Male statues. Calf bearer - Around 570 BC | author=Acropolis Museum| access-date=2016-07-17}}</ref><ref name="GI1">{{cite web| url=http://www.gettyimages.de/detail/foto/moschophoros-calf-bearer-marble-votive-statue-offered-stock-fotografie/586895089 |publisher=Getty Images | title= Calf beareer, 560 –570 BC | access-date=2016-07-17}}</ref>
* Berlin [[Kore (sculpture)|Kore]], begun in [[570 BC]], is finished. It is now displayed in [[Germany]].<ref>{{cite web| url=https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/artifact?name=Berlin+1750&object=sculpture | title=Berlin 1750 (Sculpture) | access-date=2016-07-17}}</ref>

==Births==
* [[Phocylides]], Greek gnomic poet from Miletus
* [[Xenophanes]], Greek poet and philosopher born in [[Colophon (city)|Colophon]] (approximate year)<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Xenophanes | access-date=February 24, 2024 | title=Xenophanes | series=Encyclopædia Britannica}}</ref>

==Deaths==
* [[Amel-Marduk]], king of [[Babylonia|Babylon]]<ref>{{cite book| last=Arnold | first= Bill T.| title= Who Were the Babylonians? | editor= Society of Bible Literature | date= 2004 | publisher= Society of Biblical Lit| isbn=1-58983-106-3}}</ref>
* [[Battus II of Cyrene]], Greek king of [[Cyrene, Libya|Cyrene]] and [[Cyrenaica]]<ref>{{cite book| last= Clayman |first= Dee L| title= Berenice II and the Golden Age of Ptolemaic Egypt |editor=Oxford University Press|location=Oxford |date=2014 | page=27 | isbn=978-0-19-537089-8}}</ref>
* [[King Gong of Chu]], Chinese king of [[Chu (state)|Chu]]<ref>{{cite web| url=http://ctext.org/dictionary.pl?if=en&did=1820 | title=Chinese Text Project | access-date=2016-07-17}}</ref>
* [[Leon of Sparta]], king of Sparta<ref>{{cite book| last= Baumgartner |first= Daniel Lee |title= Logos Arete: A Lexicon of the Ancient Greeks | date= 2008 | publisher=AuthorHouse | location = Bloomington | isbn=978-1-4343-6284-1 }}</ref>{{Self-published inline|date=January 2022}}
* [[Solon]] Greek poet and statesman (approximate year)<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Solon | access-date=February 24, 2024 | title=Solon | series=Encyclopædia Britannica}}</ref>

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