- 6th century BCE — Asia:
Birth of the Buddha at Lumbini
Siddhartha Gautama, of the Shakya clan, is born at Lumbini to Queen Mayadevi and King Suddhodana of Kapilavastu; he later founds Buddhism.
Era: Lumbini and the Birth of the Buddha
Sources: Lumbini, the Birthplace of the Lord Buddha · UNESCO World Heritage Centre
Religion in the 6th century BCE
One event in the Terralore archive falls in the 6th century BCE, tagged religion — faiths, institutions and religious change. It keeps the sources it was verified against and links back to the chronicle it came from.
- Events
- 1
- Nations
- 1
- Earliest
- 563 BCE
- Latest
- 563 BCE
Every entry below is the same record, with the same sources, as the one on its nation’s chronicle.