Information about 590 Bc
| Millennia: | 1st millennium BC |
| Centuries: | 7th century BC - 6th century BC - 5th century BC |
| Decades: | 620s BC 610s BC 600s BC - 590s BC - 580s BC 570s BC 560s BC |
| Years: | 599 BC 598 BC 597 BC 596 BC 595 BC 594 BC 593 BC 592 BC 591 BC 590 BC |
| Categories: | - - State leaders - Sovereign states - |
Events and trends
- 599 BC — Vardhamana Mahavira, last Tirthankar of Jainism is born.
- 598 BC — Jehoiachin succeeds Jehoiakim as King of Judah.
- March 16, 597 BC — Babylonians capture Jerusalem, replace Jehoiachin with Zedekiah as king.
- 595 BC — Psammetichus II succeeds Necho II as king of Egypt.
- 594 BC — The leaders of Athens, facing an economic crisis and popular discontent, appointed the poet-statesman Solon archon to institute democratic reforms and revive the city's constitution, extending citizenship to males of many classes.
- 593 BC — Exile of Sappho and Alcaeus (Alkaios) of Mytilene in Sicily.
- 590 BC — Egyptian army sacks Napata, compelling the Cushite court to move to a more secure location at Meroe near the sixth cataract of the Nile. (Early history of Sudan)
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- 700 BC to 600 BC — Baudhayana Sulbasutra, an orally transmitted Vedic Sanskrit text on altar construction, contains the earliest extant verbal statement of the
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Mahavira (lit. Great Hero) (599 – 527 BC, though possibly 549 – 477 BC) is the name most commonly used to refer to the Indian sage Vardhamana (Sanskrit, "increasing") who established what are today considered to be the central tenets of Jainism.
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In Jainism, a Tirthankara ("Fordmaker") (also Tirthankara or Jina) is a human who achieves enlightenment (perfect knowledge), through asceticism. A Tirthankar becomes a Jina (after totally conquering anger, pride, deceit, desire, etc.).
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"Jain" and "Jaina" redirect here. For other uses, see Jain (disambiguation) and Jaina (disambiguation).
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Ykhanya (Hebrew: יְכָנְיָה, jəxɔnjɔh, meaning "God will fortify (his people)",
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