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The year 540 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. In the Roman Empire , it was known as year 214 Ab urbe condita . The denomination 540 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.
540 BC—Cyrus attacks Babylonia. 540 BC—Greek city of Elea of southern Italy founded (approximate date). 540 BC—Persians conquer Lycian city of Xanthos now in southern Turkey (approximate date). c. 540 BC—Amasis Painter makes Dionysos with maenads, black-figure decoration on an amphora. It is now at Bibliotheque Nationale de France, Paris.
1000 BC–100 AD: Adena culture takes form in the Ohio River valley, carving fine stone pipes placed with their dead in gigantic burial mounds. [1] See Prehistory of Ohio. 500–1 BC: Basketmaker phase of early Ancestral Pueblo culture begins in the American Southwest. 500 BC–AD 1000: Plains Woodland period on the Great Plains [2]
Year 540 was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar. In the Roman Empire , it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Iustinus without colleague (or, less frequently, year 1293 Ab urbe condita ).
540. Authari, king of the Lombards (approximate date) Columbanus, Irish missionary (or 543) Galswintha, Neustrian queen, married to Chilperic I (d. 568) Garibald I, duke of Bavaria (d. 591) Pope Gregory I (the Great) (d. 604) John of Biclaro, Visigoth chronicler (approximate date) Myrddin Wyllt, Welsh legend (approximate date) 541
The Phoenicians had planted trading posts in Africa, Sicily, Sardinia and Iberia during the 9th and 8th centuries BC while creating their trading monopoly. The Phoenicians were among the first peoples, if not the first, to begin trading around the Mediterranean on a wide scale after the period of economic decline that had accompanied the end of the Mediterranean Bronze Age.
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These timelines of world history detail recorded events since the creation of writing roughly 5000 years ago to the present day. For events from c. 3200 BC – c. 500 see: Timeline of ancient history; For events from c. 500 – c. 1499, see: Timeline of post-classical history; For events from c. 1500, see: Timelines of modern history