-594

This page relates to the year -594 Gregorian Calendrier.

Events

Héraclide de Pont known as Solon becomes Archonte with Athens (594 - 593 front J. - C.) and beginning of the reforms in direction of the democracy. It was one of seven wise of Greece. When they wanted to introduce the written Loi S, the Romans sent a delegation of Senator S to study the laws of Solon to Athens.

agrarian Crisis in Attic: the peasants wishing a land reform push Solon to seize the power.
Reforms policy and social of Solon in Athens: exemption of the debts, abolition of the civil imprisonment and the mortgage, amnesties political… It divides the company into four classes according to fortune (pentacosiomédimnes, hippeis, zeugites, thètes). Democratic creation of institutions: Ball (council of the four hundreds), Academy, court of the Héliée.
Solon supports the trade, allows the arrival of foreign merchants and reform the currency.
Solon institutes the first closed houses of Athens to avoid the family disorders.

In China, tax reform and agrarian with Lu, small city of Shandong, between -594 and -590. Whereas at the time antiquated the farming community seems to be held to cultivate free grounds whose nobility reserved the products, the system of the tax on the grain spreads starting from the Life front century J. - C. It is generally tenth and appears to be calculated either according to the annual average or according to the real production of each year. The practice of the imposition in kind most probably accompanies a significant change by the country condition: the farmers undoubtedly gain there more freedom and of independence with regard to their former Masters. A certain village autonomy develops.

Beginning of the reign in Egypt of the Pharaon Psammétique II (fine in -588). It involves the fall of Jerusalem by encouraging it to be opposed to Babylon. Egypt knows a new respite thanks to the threat Perse on the Mésopotamie.

Following a revolt with Babylon and the advent of Psammétique II in Egypt, Juda, Edom, Moab, Ammon and the Phénicie try a revolt against Nabuchodonosor II. But finally, perhaps under the influence of Jérémie, Sédécias of Juda prefers to send an embassy to Babylon to ensure Nabuchodonosor of its fidelity.

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