Posted by ROSHAN B.S on Aug. 24, 2014, 10:25 a.m.
- . 600 BC: Pandyan kingdom in South India[54][55][56]
- 599 BC: Mahavira,[57] founder of Jainism is born as a prince at Kundalavana, who ruled Magadha Empire.[58]
- 563 BC: Siddhartha Gautama (Buddha), founder of Buddhism is born as a prince of the Shakya tribe, which ruled parts ofMagadha, one of the Maha Janapadas[59][60]
- 551 BC: Confucius, founder of Confucianism, is born[61]
- 550 BC: The Achaemenid Empire is founded by Cyrus the Great[62]
- 546 BC: Cyrus the Great overthrows Croesus King of Lydia[63]
- 544 BC: Rise of Magadha as the dominant power under Bimbisara.[64]
- 539 BC: The Fall of the Babylonian Empire[65][66] and liberation of the Jews by Cyrus the Great[67]
- 529 BC: Death of Cyrus the Great[68]
- 525 BC: Cambyses II of Persia conquers Egypt[69][70]
- c. 512 BC: Darius I (Darius the Great) of Persia,[71] subjugates eastern Thrace, Macedonia submits voluntarily, and annexes Libya, Persian Empire at largest extent
- 509 BC: Expulsion of the last King of Rome, founding of Roman Republic (traditional date)[72][73]
- 508 BC: Democracy instituted by Cleisthenes at Athens[74]
- c. 500 BC: Panini standardizes the grammar and morphology of Sanskrit in the textAshtadhyayi.[75] Panini's standardized Sanskrit is known as Classical Sanskrit.
- 500 BC: Pingala develops system ranks of binary patterns.[76][77]
- 490 BC: Greek city-states defeat Persian invasion at Battle of Marathon[78][79]
- 480-479 BC: Greek city states decisively defeat the Persians at the Battle of Salamis and the Battle of Plataea, ending once and for all the Persian threat to Greece.[80]
- 480 BC King Leonidas of Sparta died 10 August
