Birth of the Buddha
By tradition, the founder of Buddhism comes into the world
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By the traditional dating, Prince Siddhartha Gautama of the Shakya clan was born at Lumbini. After attaining enlightenment he became the Buddha and founded Buddhism, a world religion that spread across Asia.
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By traditional dating, the Buddha, Confucius and Pythagoras were contemporaries: all three lived in the 6th century BC.
Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Middle East
- 587 BC Destruction of Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar — 24 years earlier
- 550 BC Cyrus the Great founds the Achaemenid Empire — 13 years later
- 539 BC Fall of Babylon to Cyrus — 24 years later
Alive at the time
- Cyrus the Great (aged 37)
- Pythagoras (aged 7)
- Gautama Buddha (aged 0)
- Nebuchadnezzar II (aged 79)
- Solon (aged 67)
- Thales of Miletus (aged 61)
- Mahavira (aged 36)