The year 601 BC was a year of the
pre-Julian Roman calendar. In the
Roman Empire, it was known as year 153 ''
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 601 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
*Traditional date of the foundation of
Perinthus by settlers from
Samos.
[E.J. Bickerman, ''Chronology of the Ancient World'' (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1968), p. 198]
*The
Jewish–Babylonian war begins between the
Kingdom of Judah and
Babylonia
Babylonia (; Akkadian: , ''māt Akkadī'') was an ancient Akkadian-speaking state and cultural area based in the city of Babylon in central-southern Mesopotamia (present-day Iraq and parts of Syria). It emerged as an Amorite-ruled state c. ...
. It ends in 586 BC.
Births
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Laozi
Laozi (), also known by numerous other names, was a semilegendary ancient Chinese Taoist philosopher. Laozi ( zh, ) is a Chinese honorific, generally translated as "the Old Master". Traditional accounts say he was born as in the state
...
, ancient Chinese philosopher and writer (traditional date)
*
Darius the Mede, sometimes identified as
Gobryas or
Cyaxeres II (Biblical date)
Deaths
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Viscount Xuan of Zhao
References
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