560s BC

Events and trends

 * — succeeds his brother  as king of.
 * — succeeds  as king of.
 * — succeeds  as king of.
 * 560 BC/ — becomes king of.
 * 560 BC — An named  seizes the  of  and declares himself . He is deposed in the same year.
 * c. 560 BC —, from the , , is made. It is now at ,.

Significant people

 * c. — Birth of  on the island of, visionary mathematician (d. c. )
 * April, — Birth of, later known as  in ,
 * — Death of, king of