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This article concerns the period '''599 BC – 590 BC'''.
[[Image:Sappho and Alcaeus.jpg|thumb|300px|right|''[[Sappho and Alcaeus]]'' by [[Lawrence Alma-Tadema]] (1881).]]

==Events and trends==
*[[598 BC]]—[[Jeconiah]] succeeds [[Jehoiakim]] as King of [[Kingdom of Judah|Judah]].
*598 BC—[[Kamarina, Sicily|Kamarina]] is founded in [[Sicily]] (traditional date).<ref>E.J. Bickerman, ''Chronology of the Ancient World'' (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1968), p.&nbsp;198</ref>
*March 16, [[597 BC]]—[[Babylonia]]ns capture [[Jerusalem]] following a [[Siege of Jerusalem (597 BC)|siege]], replace [[Jeconiah]] with [[Zedekiah]] as king, and send many Jews (including [[Ezekiel]]) into [[Babylonian captivity]].
*[[595 BC]]—[[Psamtik II]] succeeds [[Necho II]] as king of [[History of ancient Egypt|Egypt]].
*595 BC—Beginning of the [[First Sacred War]] in ancient Greece.
*595 BC—In [[Zhou dynasty]] [[China]], the [[Jin (Chinese state)|State of Jin]] is defeated by the [[Chu (state)|State of Chu]] in the [[Battle of Bi]].
*[[594 BC]]—The leaders of [[Athens]], facing an economic crisis and popular discontent, appoint the poet–statesman [[Solon]] (eponymous [[archon]]) to institute [[democracy|democratic]] reforms and revive the city's constitution, extending citizenship to males of many classes and establishing the [[Ecclesia (ancient Greece)|Ecclesia]].
*[[593 BC]]—Exile of [[Sappho]] and [[Alcaeus of Mytilene|Alcaeus (Alkaios) of Mytilene]] in [[Sicily]].
*[[592 BC]]—[[Early history of Sudan]]: An [[Egypt]]ian army sacks [[Napata]], compelling the [[Kingdom of Kush|Cush]]ite court to move to a more secure location at [[Meroë]] near the sixth cataract of the [[Nile]].
*[[590 BC]]—The [[Medes|Medians]] invade the [[Kingdom of Urartu]], causing its fall.

==Significant people==
*599 BC—Birth of [[Mahavira]], the 24th [[Tirthankara]] of [[Jainism]] (died [[527 BC]])

==References==
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