Babylon Taken by the Medes and Persians (538 BC) - Timeline of the Bible

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Timeline of the Bible · The Captivity & the Return

Babylon Taken by the Medes and Persians

Event · 538 BC

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The Year 538 BC: “In the same night, that this banquet was made, was Belshasar the king of the Chaldeans slain”

Dated by Archbishop James Ussher’s Annals of the World (1658), quoted as printed, whose dates were printed in the margins of King James Bibles for two centuries.

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Daniel 5:1–31

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