Ruler · 550 – 486 BCE

Darius the Great

Lived 550 – 486 BCE; monarch, military leader, statesperson. King of Kings of Achaemenid Empire, 522 BCE – 486 BCE; also in the line of Ancient Egypt and Persian Empire.

Wikidata's English label: Darius I.

For the full story, the article on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); this page holds what the record says of the reign.

Lived: 550 BCE – 486 BCE; 64 years
In office: 36 years; one reign
Lines: 3; states
Left it: died in office; read off the dates alone

King of Kings

Achaemenid Empire · the 4th 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

Xerxes I486 BCE – 465 BCE

Xerxes II424 BCE

4 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 522 BCE – 486 BCE · 36 years · came to it aged 28

Came to it: the in-law of the ruler before, on record
Left it: died in officeread off the dates alone: the term ends in 486 BCE, the year they died

Also in the line of Ancient Egypt (77th of 87) and Persian Empire (3rd of 51, read from the line of Achaemenid Empire).

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