594 BC
Calendar year
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The year 594 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. In the Roman Empire, it was known as year 160 Ab urbe condita . The denomination 594 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.
| Gregorian calendar | 594 BC DXCIV BC |
| Ab urbe condita | 160 |
| Ancient Egypt era | XXVI dynasty, 71 |
| - Pharaoh | Psamtik II, 2 |
| Ancient Greek Olympiad (summer) | 46th Olympiad, year 3 |
| Assyrian calendar | 4157 |
| Balinese saka calendar | N/A |
| Bengali calendar | −1187 – −1186 |
| Berber calendar | 357 |
| Buddhist calendar | −49 |
| Burmese calendar | −1231 |
| Byzantine calendar | 4915–4916 |
| Chinese calendar | 丙寅年 (Fire Tiger) 2104 or 1897 — to — 丁卯年 (Fire Rabbit) 2105 or 1898 |
| Coptic calendar | −877 – −876 |
| Discordian calendar | 573 |
| Ethiopian calendar | −601 – −600 |
| Hebrew calendar | 3167–3168 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | −537 – −536 |
| - Shaka Samvat | N/A |
| - Kali Yuga | 2507–2508 |
| Holocene calendar | 9407 |
| Iranian calendar | 1215 BP – 1214 BP |
| Islamic calendar | 1252 BH – 1251 BH |
| Javanese calendar | N/A |
| Julian calendar | N/A |
| Korean calendar | 1740 |
| Minguo calendar | 2505 before ROC 民前2505年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | −2061 |
| Thai solar calendar | −51 – −50 |
| Tibetan calendar | མེ་ཕོ་སྟག་ལོ་ (male Fire-Tiger) −467 or −848 or −1620 — to — མེ་མོ་ཡོས་ལོ་ (female Fire-Hare) −466 or −847 or −1619 |
Events
- Facing an economic crisis and popular discontent, the leaders of Athens appoint the poet-statesman Solon to implement democratic reforms and revive the city's constitution.[1][2]
- Solon expands the role of the Ecclesia, the principal assembly of democracy in Athens during its Golden Age.[3]
- Sappho returns from exile in Sicily.[4]
- Solon introduces the reforms known as the Seisachtheia, cancelling many debts and abolishing debt slavery in Athens.[2]
- Solon reorganizes Athenian society into four property classes, defining eligibility for political office.[2]
- Solon publishes a new law code for Athens and orders it to be publicly displayed.[2]
- Solon establishes the Council of Four Hundred to prepare business for the Athenian assembly.[5]
- Necho II continues consolidating Egyptian control in the eastern Mediterranean during the Twenty-sixth Dynasty of Egypt.[6]
- Nebuchadnezzar II strengthens the Neo-Babylonian Empire following earlier campaigns in the Levant.[7]