Ruler · 559 – 522 BCE

Cambyses II

Lived 559 – 522 BCE. King of Kings of Achaemenid Empire, 530 BCE – 522 BCE; also in the line of Persian Empire, Ancient Egypt and Twenty-seventh Dynasty of Egypt.

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Lived: 559 BCE – 522 BCE; 37 years
In office: 8 years; one reign
Lines: 4; states
Left it: died in office; Wikidata's manner of death

King of Kings

Achaemenid Empire · the 2nd of 11 dated reigns · 559 BCE – 330 BCE

Cyrus the Great559 BCE – 530 BCE

Cambyses II530 BCE – 522 BCE

Bardiya522 BCE

Darius the Great522 BCE – 486 BCE

Atossa522 BCE – 475 BCE

6 after

killed, executed or dead in battledeposed, abdicated, exiled or removeddied in officeending not on recorda second row: a reign that began before the last had ended — rival claimants, or a shared thronethis entry

Reigned 530 BCE – 522 BCE · 8 years · came to it aged 29

Came to it: the child of the ruler before, on record
Left it: died in officeWikidata's manner of death: natural causes; gangrene

Also in the line of Persian Empire (1st of 51, read from the line of Achaemenid Empire), Ancient Egypt (75th of 87) and Twenty-seventh Dynasty of Egypt (1st of 2).

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