What is 545 Bc?

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Millennia:	1st millennium BC
Centuries:	7th century BC - 6th century BC - 5th century BC
Decades:	570s BC 560s BC 550s BC - 540s BC - 530s BC 520s BC 510s BC
Years:	549 BC 548 BC 547 BC 546 BC 545 BC 544 BC 543 BC 542 BC 541 BC 540 BC
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546 BC — Croesus, Lydian king, is defeated by Cyrus of Persia near the River Halys.
546 BC — Cyrus of Persia completes his conquest of Lydia, and makes Pasargadae his capital.
546 BC — Cyrus the Great establishes a garrison in Sardis and incorporates the Greek cities of Ionia in Asia Minor into Persian Empire. Thus he gains the important ports that look out to the Mediterranean world.
544 BC — People of Teos migrate to Abdera, Thrace to escape the yoke of Persia.
544 BC — Zhou Jing Wang becomes King of the Zhou Dynasty of China.
543 BC — North Indian Prince Vijaya invades Ceylon and establishes a Sri Lankan dynasty.
543 BC — Pisistratus, tyrant of Athens, purifies the island of Delos (approximate date).
c. 543 BC — Buddha dies
540 BC — Cyrus the Great attacked Babylonia.
540 BC — Greek city of Elea of southern Italy founded (approximate date).
540 BC — Persians conquer Lycian city of Xanthos now in southern Turkey (approximate date).
c. 540 BC — Amasis Painter makes Dionysos with maenads, black-figure decoration on an amphora. It is now at Bibliotheque Nationale de France, Paris.
c. 540 BC — Exekias makes The suicide of Ajax, black-figure decoration on a amphora. It is now at Chateau-Musee, Boulogne-sur-Mer, France.

Significant people

549 BC — Birth of Darius I
547 BC — Death of Croesus
546 BC — Death of Anaximander, Greek philosopher (approximate date)
545 BC — Death of Zhou ling wang, King of the Zhou Dynasty of China
544 BC — Birth of Sun Tzu
543 BC — Death of Gautama Buddha (traditional in Thailand and elsewhere — basis of the Thai solar calendar)
543 BC — Death of Thales, Greek philosopher
540 BC — Amyntas I becomes king of Macedonia (approximate date)
Amasis Painter, Greek painter
Exekias, Greek painter

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Croesus (IPA pronunciation: [ˈkɹisəs], CREE-sus) (595 BC – c. 546 BC) was the king of Lydia from 560/561 BC until his defeat by the Persians in about 547 BC.
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Lydia (in Greek Λυδία) is a historic region of western Asia Minor, congruent with Turkey's modern provinces of İzmir and Manisa. Its traditional capital was the city of Sardis (Turkish: Sard).
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monarch (see sovereignty) is a type of ruler or head of state. Monarchs almost always inherit their titles and are rulers for life; that is, they have no term limit. Historically monarchs have been more or less absolute rulers.
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Cyrus II of Persia, The Great
King of Persia, King of Media

An old Iranian portrait of Cyrus the Great (artist's conception).
Reign 550 BC to 529 BC
Born 590 BC or 576 BC
Anshan
Died August 530 BC
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BCE Zayandeh River Civilization Sialk civilization 7500–1000 Jiroft civilization (Aratta) Proto-Elamite civilization Bactria-Margiana Complex Elamite dynasties 2800–550 Kingdom of Mannai Median Empire 728–550 Achaemenid Empire Seleucid Empire Greco-Bactrian
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