Lydia: Timeline

797 BC   Ardysus I becomes king of Lydia.

747 BC   Meles becomes king of Lydia.

718 BC   Gyges becomes the ruler of Lydia.

687 BC   Gyges becomes king of Lydia.

652 BC   Born

631 BC   Sadyates becomes king of Lydia.

619 BC   Alyattes Alyattes II

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 becomes king of Lydia.

547 BC   Croesus, Lydian king Monarch

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, is defeated by Cyrus Cyrus the Great

Cyrus the Great [i], also known as Cyrus II of Persia and Cyr ... 

 of Persia Persian Empire

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 near the River Halys.

546 BC   Cyrus of Persia completes his conquest of Lydia, and makes Pasargadae his capital Capital

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.

479 BC   Meanwhile at sea, the Persians are defeated by a Greek fleet headed by Leotychides of Sparta and Xanthippus of Athens at the Battle of Mycale, off the coast of Lydia in Asia Minor.

560   Croesus becomes king of Lydia.