Later in the inscription, Darius provides a lengthy sequence of events following the deaths of Cyrus the Great and Cambyses II in which he fought nineteen battles in a period of one year ( ending in December of 521 BC ) to put down multiple rebellions throughout the Persian Empire.

His death in 522 was followed by a period of turmoil until Darius the Great seized the throne in about 521.

* Nebuchadnezzar IV ( Arakha ), who rebelled against Darius I of Persia in 521 BC

* Darius I, King of Persia ( reigned 521 – 485 BC )

van der Waerden later ( 1963, 1968, 1974 ) concluded that System A was developed during the reign of Darius I ( 521 – 485 BC ).

After a relatively brief halt due to opposition from peoples who had filled the vacuum during the Jewish captivity ( Ezra 4 ), work resumed c. 521 BCE under the Persian King Darius ( Ezra 5 ) and was completed during the sixth year of his reign ( c. 518 / 517 BCE ), with the temple dedication taking place the following year.

The inscription on Darius ' ( 521 – 486 BC ) tomb at Naqsh-i-Rustam near Persepolis records GADĀRA ( Gandāra ) along with HINDUSH ( Hənduš, Sindh ) in the list of satrapies.

Both these ancient kingdoms, first Gandhara then Sindh, fell prey to Persia during the reign of Cyrus the Great ( 558 – 530 BCE ), and in the first years of the reign of Darius I ( 521 – 486 BCE ).

After Darius became Persian Emperor in 521 BC, he remade the ancient trade route into the Persian " Royal Road " and instituted administrative reforms that included setting up satrapies.

* Darius I: 521 – 486 BC

* 1980 – Darius Campbell, Scottish singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor

Another view attempts to identify him instead with Artaxerxes I ( ruled 465 – 424 BCE ), whose Babylonian concubine, Kosmartydene, was the mother of his son Darius II ( ruled 424 – 405 BCE ).

The Hall of Hundred Columns at Persepolis, measuring 70 × 70 metres, was built by the Achaemenid king Darius I ( 524 – 486 BC ).

He preferred 1 Esdras over the canonical Ezra – Nehemiah and placed Ezra as a contemporary of Xerxes son of Darius, rather than of Artaxerxes.

* 1978 – Darius Songaila, Lithuanian basketball player

* 1980 – Darius Vassell, English footballer

Larissa was indeed the birthplace of Meno, who thus became, along with Xenophon and a few others, one of the generals leading several thousands Greeks from various places, in the ill-fated expedition of 401 ( retold in Xenophon's Anabasis ) meant to help Cyrus the Younger, son of Darius II, king of Persia, overthrow his elder brother Artaxerxes II and take over the throne of Persia ( Meno is featured in Plato's dialogue bearing his name, in which Socrates uses the example of " the way to Larissa " to help explain Meno the difference between true opinion and science ( Meno, 97a – c ) ; this " way to Larissa " might well be on the part of Socrates an attempt to call to Meno's mind a " way home ", understood as the way toward one's true and " eternal " home reached only at death, that each man is supposed to seek in his life ).

* 334 BC – The Macedonian army of Alexander the Great defeats Darius III of Persia in the Battle of the Granicus.

* 1966 – Darius Rucker, American singer-songwriter and guitarist ( Hootie & the Blowfish )

* 331 BC – Alexander the Great defeats Darius III of Persia in the Battle of Gaugamela.

* 1981 – Darius Miles, American basketball player

* 1972 – Darius Kasparaitis, Russian ice hockey player

* 522 BC – Darius I of Persia kills the Magian usurper Gaumâta, securing his hold as king of the Persian Empire.

* June 22 – Darius Milhaud, French composer ( b. 1892 )

* September 4 – Darius Milhaud, French composer ( d. 1974 )

* Darius II, king of Persia ( reigned 423 – 404 BC )

After a brief period under Persian rule under Darius Hystaspes, the state regained its independence under King Alexander I ( 495 – 450 BC ).

* Darius Kasparaitis ( born 1972 ), Lithuanian – Russian ice hockey player

Darius I (, Old Persian: Dārayava ( h ) uš ; 550 – 486 BCE ) was the third king of the Achaemenid Empire.

Also according to Herodotus ( III. 139 ), Darius, prior to seizing power and " of no consequence at the time ", had served as a spearman ( doryphoros ) in the Egyptian campaign ( 528 – 525 BCE ) of Cambyses II, then the Persian Great King.

Darius III () ( c. 380 – July 330 BC ), whose original given name was Artashata and who was called Codomannus by the Greeks, was the last king of the Achaemenid Empire of Persia from 336 BC to 330 BC.

Authored by Darius the Great sometime between his coronation as king of the Persian Empire in the summer of 522 BC and his death in autumn of 486 BC, the inscription begins with a brief autobiography of Darius, including his ancestry and lineage.

Darius then began raising a huge new army with which he meant to completely subjugate Greece ; however, in 486 BC, his Egyptian subjects revolted, indefinitely postponing any Greek expedition.

In the meanwhile, Darius began raising a huge new army with which he meant to completely subjugate Greece ; however, in 486 BC, his Egyptian subjects revolted, indefinitely postponing any Greek expedition.

* 486 BC: Xerxes I succeeds Darius I as Great King of Persia

In October 486 BCE the body of Darius was embalmed and entombed in the rock-cut sepulcher which had been prepared for him several years earlier.

Darius therefore began raising a huge new army with which he meant to completely subjugate Greece ; however, in 486 BC, his Egyptian subjects revolted, indefinitely postponing any Greek expedition.

He began to transcribe the Old Persian portion of the trilingual inscriptions in Old Persian, Elamite and Babylonian ( a later form of Akkadian ) written by Darius the Great sometime between his coronation as king of the Persian Empire in the summer of 522 BC and his death in autumn of 486 BC.

Carved in the reign of King Darius of Persia ( 522 BC – 486 BC ), the inscriptions consisted of identical texts in the three official languages of the empire: Old Persian, Babylonian, and Elamite.

Darius then began to plan to complete the conquest of Greece, but died in 486 BC and responsibility for the conquest passed to his son Xerxes I.

After the failure of the first invasion, Darius began raising a huge new army with which he meant to subjugate Greece completely ; however, in 486 BC, his Egyptian subjects revolted, indefinitely postponing any Greek expedition.

Darius therefore began raising a huge new army with which he meant to completely subjugate Greece ; however, in 486 BC, his Egyptian subjects revolted, indefinitely postponing any Greek expedition.

The coin was introduced by Darius the Great of Persia some time between 522 BC and 486 BC and ended with Alexander the Great's invasion in 330 BC.

When Darius died in 486 BC, Amestris was married to the crown prince, Xerxes.

It was erected by Darius the Great, king of ancient Persia, whose reign lasted from 522 BCE to 486 BCE.

From Darius, Luther calculates 456 years to Christ's birth and another 30 years to Christ's baptism ( Luke 3: 23 ), totaling 486 years.

Darius I the Great reigned from 522 to 486 BCE.