635. The _Scythians_ invade the _Medes_ and _Assyrians_.
633. _Battus_ builds _Cyrene_, where _Irasa_, the city of _Antæus_, had stood.
625. _Nabopolassar_ revolts from the King of _Assyria_, and Reigns over _Babylon_. _Phalantus_ leads the _Parthenians_ into _Italy_, and builds _Tarentum._
617. _Psammiticus_ dies. _Nechaoh_ reigns in _Egypt_.
610. The Princes of the _Scythians_ slain in a feast by _Cyaxeres_.
609. _Josiah_ slain. _Cyaxeres_ and _Nebuchadnezzar_ overthrow _Nineveh_, and, by sharing the _Assyrian_ Empire, grow great.
607. _Creon_ the first annual Archon of the _Athenians_. The second _Messenian_ war begins. _Cyaxeres_ makes the _Scythians_ retire beyond _Colchos_ and _Iberia_, and seizes the _Assyrian_ Provinces of _Armenia_, _Pontus_ and _Cappadocia_.
606. _Nebuchadnezzar_ invades _Syria_ and _Judæa_.
604. _Nabopolassar_ dies, and is succeeded by his Son _Nebuchadnezzar_, who had already Reigned two years with his father.
600. _Darius_ the _Mede_, the son of _Cyaxeres,_ is born.
599. _Cyrus_ is born of _Mandane_, the Sister of _Cyaxeres_, and daughter of _Astyages_.
596. _Susiana_ and _Elam_ conquered by _Nebuchadnezzar_. _Caranus_ and _Perdiccas_ fly from _Phidon_, and found the Kingdom of _Macedon_. _Phidon_ introduces Weights and Measures, and the Coining of Silver Money.
590. _Cyaxeres_ makes war upon _Alyattes_ King of _Lydia_.
588. The Temple of _Solomon_ is burnt by _Nebuchadnezzar_. The _Messenians_ being conquered, fly into _Sicily_, and build _Messana_.
585. In the sixth year of the _Lydian_ war, a total Eclipse of the Sun, predicted by _Thales_, _May_ the 28th, puts an end to a Battel between the _Medes_ and _Lydians_: Whereupon they make Peace, and ratify it by a marriage between _Darius Medus_ the son of _Cyaxeres_, and _Ariene_ the daughter of _Alyattes_.
584. _Phidon_ presides in the 49th Olympiad.
580. _Phidon_ is overthrown. Two men chosen by lot, out of the city _Elis_, to preside in the Olympic Games.
572. _Draco_ is Archon of the _Athenians_, and makes laws for them.
568. The _Amphictions_ make war upon the _Cirrheans_, by the advice of _Solon_, and take _Cirrha_. _Clisthenes_, _Alcmæon_ and _Eurolicus_ commanded the forces of the _Amphictions_, and were contemporary to _Phidon_. For _Leocides_ the son of _Phidon_, and _Megacles_ the son of _Alcmæon,_ at one and the same time, courted _Agarista_ the daughter of _Clisthenes_.