Editing 559 BC

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The year '''559 BC''' was a year of the [[Roman calendar|pre-Julian Roman calendar]]. In the [[Roman Empire]], it was known as '''year 195 ''[[Ab urbe condita]]'''''.<ref>{{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 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>{{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==
* [[Cyrus the Great]] succeeds his father [[Cambyses I|Cambyses I of Anshan]].<ref name=ECPB1>{{cite web|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Cyrus-II |title=Cyrus II King of Persia |editor=Encyclopaedia Britannica |author=Richard N. Frye |access-date=2016-07-16}}</ref>
* In the year of his [[coronation|accession]] (560–559 BC), the [[Babylon|Babylonian]] king [[Neriglissar]] commands the declaration of an [[Babylonian calendar|intercalendary month]], so that his first year of [[Monarchy|kingship]] begins on [[Babylonian calendar|Nisan]] 1 of 559 BC.<ref>{{cite book|last=Galil |first=Gershon |title=The Chronology of the Kings of Israel and Judah |editor= E.J. Brill |location=Leiden |date= 1996 | isbn=9004-10611-1}}</ref>

==Births==
* [[Amitis Shahbanu]], Achaemenid queen<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.persepolis.nu/queens.htm#amitis |title=Amitis Shahbanu | access-date=2016-07-16}}</ref>

==Deaths==
* [[Cambyses I]], father of [[Cyrus the Great]] and king of Anshan<ref name=ECPB1/>

==References==
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