The last events in Chronicles take place in the reign of Cyrus the Great, the Persian king who conquered Babylon in 539 BCE ; this sets an earliest possible date for the book.

R. N. Whybray uses these passages to pinpoint the period of Deutero-Isaiah's activity to 550 – 539 BCE ).

Cyrus the Great, the Persian king, conquered Babylon in 539 BCE.

520 BCE falls between the start of the Persian empire in 539 BCE and 520 BCE a period that saw major kings such as Zerubbabel helped lead the Jews in their return to the land.

Eventually freedom did come to many Israelites, when Cyrus the Great overtook the Babylonians in 539 BCE.

Following the fall of Babylon to the Persian king Cyrus the Great, 539 BCE, some Judean exiles returned to Jerusalem, inaugurating the formative period in the development of a distinctive Judahite identity in the Persian province of Yehud.

When Babylon fell to the Persian Cyrus the Great in 539 BCE, Judah ( or Yehud medinata, the " province of Yehud ") became an administrative division within the Persian empire.

Cyrus the Great, the Persian king, refounded the city one mile southeast of its historic site at the mound of Tell es-Sultan and returned the Jewish exiles after conquering Babylon in 539 BCE.

The Zohar is mostly written in what has been described as an exalted, eccentric style of Aramaic, which was the day-to-day language of Israel in the Second Temple period ( 539 BCE – 70 CE ), was the original language of large sections of the biblical books of Daniel and Ezra, and is the main language of the Talmud.

When Cyrus the Great conquered Babylon in 539 BCE, Cambyses was employed in leading religious ceremonies.

In 539 BCE, Mesopotamia was invaded by the Persian empire, then ruled by Cyrus the Great.

In October 539 BCE, Nabonidus defended Opis against the Persian Empire commanded by Cyrus the Great.

Thompson and Davies see the entire Hebrew Bible ( Old Testament ) as the imaginative creation of a small community of Jews at Jerusalem during the period which the Bible assigns to after the return from the Babylonian exile, from 539 BCE onward.

Alexander ’ s conquest of the Mediterranean world brought an end to Persian control of Jerusalem ( 539 BCE-334 / 333 BCE ) and ushered in the Hellenistic period.

In 539 BCE, Persia's rulers conquered Babylon, and soon afterwards-at least by the 4th Century BCE-adopted the Babylonian method of reckoning months: 12 months each containing 30 days.

Cyrus II of Persia conquered the Babylonian Empire by 539 BCE and incorporated the entire area into the Persian Empire.

The Persian period is dated from 539 to 333 BCE.

In 539 BCE, the Babylonian empire was replaced by the Achaemenid Empire.

In 539 BCE, Nabonidus retired to Tayma for worship and looking for prophecies, entrusting the kingship of Babylon to his son.

* Iran Chamber Society The Cyrus Prism: The Decree of return for the Jews, 539 BCE, edited by Charles F. Horne,

539 BCE has been proposed as the year the events in Daniel 5 occurred, based on translations from the Nabonidus ( Nabunaid ) Chronicle, found in ruins near Baghdad in 1879 and now preserved in the British Museum.

Nabonidus proved to be the final native Mesopotamian king of Babylon, he and his son, the regent Belshazzar being deposed by the Persians in 539 BC.

* The final stage was the addition of a few extra laws following the fall of Babylon to the Persians in 539 and the return of some ( in practice only a small fraction ) of the exiles to Jerusalem.

( 25: 12 ) ( Babylon fell to the Persians under Cyrus in 539 BC ( 66, 58 or 47 years after the beginning of the Babylonian exile depending on how you count ).

Thus, it lists Kings of Babylon from 747 BC until the fall of Babylon to the Persians in 539 BC, and then Persian kings from 538 to 332 BC.

The same period saw the rapid rise of Persia, previously an unimportant kingdom in present-day southern Iran, to a position of great power, and in 539 BC Cyrus II, the Persian ruler, conquered Babylon.

The indigenous Sumerians and Akkadians ( including Assyrians and Babylonians ) dominated Mesopotamia from the beginning of written history ( c. 3100 BC ) to the fall of Babylon in 539 BC, when it was conquered by the Achaemenid Empire.

In 539, the Ostrogoths conquered and destroyed Milan in the course of the so-called Gothic War against Byzantine Emperor Justinian I.

* 539 BC — Babylon is conquered by Cyrus, defeating Nabonidus.

The only thing for certain that was predicted is the return of the Jews to their land, which occurred when Cyrus the Persian conquered Babylon in c. 539 BC.

In 489 it was in the Ostrogothic kingdom ; later ( 539 ) it belonged to the Exarchate of Ravenna, but was conquered by Alboin's Lombards in 569.

* The generals of Astyages, the last king of the Medes, mutinied at Pasargadae and the empire surrendered to the Persian Empire, which conquered Babylon in 539 BC under Cyrus the Great.

Though conquerors, the Chaldeans were rapidly and completely assimilated into the dominant Babylonian culture, as the Amorites before them had been, and after the fall of Babylon in 539 BC the term " Chaldean " was no longer used to describe a specific race of people, but rather a " socio-Economic " class, regardless of ethnicity.

* 539 BC – Cyrus the Great marches into the city of Babylon, releasing the Jews from almost 70 years of exile.

* 539 BC – Cyrus the Great enters the city of Babylon, detains Nabonidus and ends the Babylonian captivity.

* 539 BC – The army of Cyrus the Great of Persia takes Babylon.

Taylor found clay cylinders in the four corners of the top stage of the ziggurat which bore an inscription of Nabonidus ( Nabuna ` id ), the last king of Babylon ( 539 BC ), closing with a prayer for his son Belshar-uzur ( Bel-ŝarra-Uzur ), the Belshazzar of the Book of Daniel.

* 539 BC / 538 BC — Death of Nabonidus, the last king of Babylon

After the Persian conquest of Babylon in 539 Judah ( Hebrew: י ְ הו ּ ד ָ ה Yehuda ) became a province of the Persian empire.

In addition, he found the Cyrus cylinder, the famous declaration of Cyrus the Great that was issued in 539 BC to commemorate the Persian Empire's conquest of Babylon.

# The ancient " Babylonian " story ( 539 BC ) depicts the conflict between Prince Belshazzar of Babylon and Cyrus the Great of Persia.

The " Fall of Babylon " to Cyrus the Great c. 539 BC, depicted in a medieval tapestry.

The exact dates of the Lydian conquest are unknown, but it must have taken place between Cyrus's overthrow of the Median kingdom ( 550 BC ) and his conquest of Babylon ( 539 BC ).