The year 590 BC was a year of the
pre-Julian Roman calendar. In the
Roman Empire, it was known as year 164 ''
Ab urbe condita
''Ab urbe condita'' ( 'from the founding of the City'), or ''anno urbis conditae'' (; 'in the year since the city's founding'), abbreviated as AUC or AVC, expresses a date in years since 753 BC, the traditional founding of Rome. It is an exp ...
'' . The denomination 590 BC for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the
Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.
Events
* The
Medians
The Medes ( Old Persian: ; Akkadian: , ; Ancient Greek: ; Latin: ) were an ancient Iranian people who spoke the Median language and who inhabited an area known as Media between western and northern Iran. Around the 11th century BC, th ...
invade the
Kingdom of Urartu, causing the fall of that kingdom.
Births
Deaths
*
Eurycratides
Eurycratides ( grc-gre, Εὐρυκρατίδης, "wide ruler") was the thirteenth king of Sparta from the Agiad dynasty. He succeeded his father Anaxander around 615 BC and reigned during a devastating period of war with Tegea.
In 590 BC, Eury ...
, Agiad king of
Sparta
*
Rusa III, king of
Urartu (or
615 BC)
References
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