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A Chronological Table, From Earliest Time Up to Date: Persians

Daniel prophesied. 529 Death of Cyrus the Great. -Cambyses King of Persia. 527 Death of Pisistratus Tyrant of Athens. 522 Darius, son of Hystaspes, King of Persia. 521 Death of Cambyses. 520 The Jews begin to build the second Temple, which is finished in four years. 510 The Pisistratidæ expelled from Athens, and the Democracy restored. 509 The Tarquins expelled from Rome, the Regal government abolished, and the Consular established. 508 The first alliance between the Romans and Carthaginians. 504 Sardis taken and burnt by the Athenians. 500 LXXth Olympiad. 498 The first Dictator created at Rome (Lartius). 497 Institution of the Saturnalia at Rome. 493 The port of Piræus built by the Athenians. 490 The Battle of Marathon, in which Miltiades defeats the Persians. - The first tribunes of the people created at Rome. 488 Statues erected at Athens to Harmodius and Aristogiton. 486 Miltiades dies in prison.

Xerxes succeeds his father Darius in the kingdom of Persia. 485 Coriolanus banished from Rome. 483 Quæstors instituted at Rome.