559 BC
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The year 559 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. In the Roman Empire, it was known as year 195 Ab urbe condita.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The denomination 559 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>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
EventsEdit
- Cyrus the Great succeeds his father Cambyses I of Anshan.<ref name=ECPB1>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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- In the year of his accession (560–559 BC), the Babylonian king Neriglissar commands the declaration of an intercalendary month, so that his first year of kingship begins on Nisan 1 of 559 BC.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
BirthsEdit
- Amitis Shahbanu, Achaemenid queen<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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DeathsEdit
- Cambyses I, father of Cyrus the Great and king of Anshan<ref name=ECPB1/>