* 556 BC — Pisistratus is exiled from Athens to Euboea.

* 556 BC — Labashi-Marduk succeeds Neriglissar as king of Babylon.

* 556 BC — Nabonidus succeeds Labashi-Marduk as king of Babylon.

* 556 BC — Rule of Labashi-Marduk as king of Babylon

* 556 BC — Rule of Nabonidus as king of Babylon

* c. 556 BC — Birth of Simonides of Ceos.

** Simonides of Ceos, Greek lyric poet ( b. c. 556 BC )

Nergal-sharezer or Neriglissar ( in Akkadian Nergal-šar-uṣur, " Oh god Nergal, preserve / defend the king ") was King of Babylon from 560 to 556 BC.

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Simonides of Ceos () ( c. 556 – 468 BC ) was a Greek lyric poet, born at Ioulis on Kea.

According to the Byzantine encyclopaedia, Suda: " He was born in the 56th Olympiad ( 556 / 552 BC ) or according to some writers in the 62nd ( 532 / 528 ) and he survived until the 78th ( 468 / 464 ), having lived eighty-nine years.

Category: 556 BC births

# The Hellenic proper, of which Simonides of Ceos ( c. 556 – 469 BC ), the author of most of the sepulchral inscriptions on those who fell in the Persian wars, is representative.

As of 2008, archaeologists have failed to find a site in existence during the time from 3300 BC ( Uruk IV ) to 556 BC ( Neo-Babylonian Era ), when Dilmun ( Telmun ) appears in texts.

* Simonides of Ceos, ( c. 556 – 469 BC ), a lyric poet

Herodotus speaks of him as contemporary with Hippocrates, the father of Peisistratus, and Diogenes Laertius states that he was an old man in the 52nd Olympiad ( 572 BC ), and that he was elected an ephor in Sparta in the 56th Olympiad ( 556 / 5 BC ).

Labashi-Marduk, was king of Babylon ( 556 BC ), and son of Neriglissar.

Category: 556 BC deaths

However the Ephraimites were defeated by the Assyrians in 556 BC and systematically dispersed throughout the Assyrian Empire ( which included parts of the modern nations of Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Syria, Iraq, etc.

In 2007, partly in response to Lieder's proclamations, Sitchin published a book, The End of Days, which set the time for the last passing of Nibiru by Earth at 556 BC, which would mean, given the object's supposed 3, 600-year orbit, that it would return sometime around AD 2900.

* Neriglissar ( Nêrigasolassáros ): 559 – 556 BC