Achaemenid Persian Empire
550 BCE–330 BCE · Event
Empire founded by Cyrus the Great, extending from the Aegean to the Indus at its height; conquered by Alexander the Great.
On these timelines: Persia and Iran, Master, Greco-Persian Wars
More from Persia and Iran
- Cyrus the Great (600 BCE)
- Sassanid Empire (224)
- Fall of the Sasanian Empire (651)
- Safavid Empire (1501)
- Alexander's conquest of the Persian Empire (334 BCE)
- Safavid Iran converts to Twelver Shi'ism (1501)
- Zoroaster (1200 BCE)
- Khomeini's supreme leadership of Iran (1979)
Around 550 BCE
- Persian invasions of Greece (499 BCE)
- Gautama Buddha (563 BCE)
- Confucius (551 BCE)
- Roman Republic founded (509 BCE)
- Cleisthenes' reforms (508 BCE)
- Socrates (469 BCE)
- Ramayana (500 BCE)
- Babylonian Captivity of the Jews (597 BCE)
- Age of Pericles in Athens (461 BCE)
- Achaemenid Persian Empire founded (550 BCE)