556 BC

{{Year nav|-556}} {{BC year in topic|556}} The year '''556 BC''' was a year of the [[Roman calendar|pre-Julian Roman calendar]]. In the [[Roman Empire]], it was known as '''year 198 ''[[Ab urbe condita]]'''''. The denomination 556 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== * [[Labashi-Marduk]] succeeds [[Neriglissar]] as king of [[Babylon]]. * [[Pisistratus]] is expelled to [[Euboea]] from [[Athens]], and makes his fortune from [[Thrace]]'s mines. * [[Nabonidus]] succeeds Labashi-Marduk as king of [[Babylon]].

==Births== * [[Simonides of Ceos]],<ref>''Suda'', Simonides (1st notice), translated by D. Campbell, ''Greek Lyric III'', Loeb Classical Library (1991), page 331.</ref> approximate date

==Deaths== * [[Labashi-Marduk]], king of [[Babylon]] * [[Neriglissar]], king of [[Babylon]]

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