549 BC
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The year 549 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. In the Roman Empire, it was known as year 205 Ab urbe condita. The denomination 549 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.
Events
[edit | edit source]By place
[edit | edit source]Persia
[edit | edit source]- King Cyrus II (the Great) captures the Median capital of Ecbatana, conquering the nation of Media.[1]
Asia
[edit | edit source]Births
[edit | edit source]- Darius I, king of Persia (approximate date)[citation needed]
Deaths
[edit | edit source]References
[edit | edit source]- ↑ Brown, Stuart (15 December 1997). "ECBATANA". Encyclopædia Iranica.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Jien (1979). Brown, Delmer M.; Ishida, Ichirō (eds.). The Future and the Past A Translation and Study of the Gukanshō, an Interpretative History of Japan Written in 1219. University of California Press. pp. 250–251.