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The Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms Amended - To which is Prefix'd, A Short Chronicle from the First - Memory of Things in Europe, to the Conquest of Persia by - Alexander the Great by Isaac Newton
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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_, _AlcmÃ¦on_ and _Eurolicus_
commanded the forces of the _Amphictions_, and were contemporary to
_Phidon_. For _Leocides_ the son of _Phidon_, and _Megacles_ the son of