530s BC
Events and trends
- Lucius Tarquinius Superbus becomes seventh King of Rome, after murdering the sixth king Servius Tullius.
- Competitions for tragedy are instituted at the City Dionysia festival in Athens.
- Cyrus II is killed in war against obscure tribes.
- Cambyses starts to rule in Persia.
- Royal Arch Masons take this year as the epoch for dating their documents Anno Inventionis after the beginning of the Second Temple by Zerubbabel.
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