us_ is born of _Mandane_, the Sister of _Cyaxeres_, and daughter
of _Astyages_.

596. _Susiana_ and _Elam_ conquered by _Nebuchadnezzar_. _Caranus_ and
_Perdiccas_ fly from _Phidon_, and found the Kingdom of _Macedon_. _Phidon_
introduces Weights and Measures, and the Coining of Silver Money.

590. _Cyaxeres_ makes war upon _Alyattes_ King of _Lydia_.

588. The Temple of _Solomon_ is burnt by _Nebuchadnezzar_. The _Messenians_
being conquered, fly into _Sicily_, and build _Messana_.

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_, _Alcmaeon_ and _Eurolicus_
commanded the forces of the _Amphictions_, and were contemporary to
_Phidon_. For _Leocides_ the son of _Phidon_, and _Megacles_ the son of
_Alcmaeon,_ 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
_Croesus_ 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 G