Draco's laws
Death for nearly every crime: the origin of 'draconian'
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Draco gave Athens its first written laws, replacing blood feuds with courts. Tradition says death was the penalty for almost any offence, and Solon later repealed everything except the homicide laws. Harsh rules have been called 'draconian' ever since.
Wikipedia (Russian) · Wikipedia (English) · 7th century BC
Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Middle East
- 612 BC Fall of Nineveh — 9 years later
Alive at the time
- Nebuchadnezzar II (aged 21)
- Solon (aged 9)
- Sappho (aged 9)
- Thales of Miletus (aged 3)