522 BC e.

• 522/1 - Athenian archon eponym Pisistratus .
• 522-520 - Samos under the rule of Meander.
• 522 - Anacreont moved from Samos to Athens at the invitation of Hipparchus .
• 522 - 11.3 - The beginning of the reign of the Bardia ( Gaumates ) in Persia. March (July) - Cambyses dies during his return from Egypt. The uprising in Margiana. June - Bardia abolishes all taxes and military service for three years. 29.9 - The overthrow and murder of Bardia in the Medes as a result of the conspiracy of seven noble Persians. The army in Western Iran supports Darius. Darius I is proclaimed king.
• Darius I becomes king of Persia.
• 522–486 - King of the Persians Darius I (c. 558 (549) -486), son of Gistasp (Vistaspas) and nephew of Cyrus the Great. Reform of the administrative management system. One of his wives is Athos (Hutaus), the widow of Cambyses and Bardia, daughter of Cyrus.
• 522 - Rebellion in Elam and Babylonia against Darius. Elam quickly submits, but the suppression of the rebellion in Babylonia requires several months. Gobriy (Gauburava) crushed the rebellion in Babylon. Elam, Medes, Egypt, and Parthia fall from Darius. Darius quickly suppresses the rebellion. Suppression of the uprising in Armenia. December - The brutal suppression of the uprising in Margiana.

China

• The 20th year according to the era of the reign of the lutsk prince Zhao-gong ^[1] .
• In the summer, the Tsaos dignitary Gunsun Hui from the Cao city ​​of Meng fled to Song ^[2] .
• The conspirators in the autumn killed Zhi (the elder brother of the Wei prince) ^[3] , who fled to the city on the outskirts of the principality. Bei-gun Xi attacked the head of the Qi conspirators and destroyed his clan. The ruler returned after concluding an agreement with Bei-gun Xi and with the townspeople ^[4] .
• the Sung gong did not believe relatives and tricked all the princes by deception, dignitaries from the clans of Hua and Xiang rebelled. Hua Hai, contrary to Xiang Ning, insisted that he release the son of the gong, he was forgiven and returned to his post ^{[5] [6]} .
• In the 10th moon, the Suna dignitaries Hua Hai, Xiang Ning and Hua Ding fled to Chen ^[7] .
• In the 11th moon, on the day of Sin-Mao , Prince Tsai Ping-hou (Lu) died ^[8] . The grandson of Lin-hou Dong-go (son Yu) killed the son of Ping-hou and rose to power himself (Tao-hou, era of reign 521-519) ^[9] . According to Zuo Zhuang , Zhu (the son of Ping-hou) fled to Chu , and the dignitary Fei Wu-chi, receiving gifts from Dong-go, forced the Tsai to accept Dong-go as a prince ^[10] .
• Zhou Wang order to cast the Wushe bell. The dignitary Danish Mu-gong exhorted him against (episode 30 " Guo yui "), but to no avail. The musician Zhou-jeu gave a lecture on music to Van (episode 31, " Guo Yu ") ^[11] .
• Tsiskiy Ching-gong fell ill, and then, on the advice of Yan-tzu, he carried out a number of reforms ^[12] .
• Tsiskiy Ching-gong hunted along with Yan-tzu on the border with Lu. He entered the capital Lu and, together with Yan-tzu, talked about etiquette (whether) with Confucius ^[13] .
• Chuski Wang wanted to kill his son and heir Jiang ^[14] .
• (or 523 year) the Chusky van executed Wu She and his son Wu Shang, but the second son Wu Xu fled to Wu ^[15] (according to Chapter 66, he fled to Song and then Zheng along with his heir Jiang).
• Jian fled to Song. In Song, he saw confusion and fled to Zheng ^[16] .
• In Zheng, Zi-chan (Cheng-tzu, the grandson of Zheng Mu-gong) fell ill, handed over the affairs of Zi to Tai-shu and died. All Zheng people mourned him, and Confucius also mourned ^[17] . In Shi Ji , his death is dated to the 5th year of Sheng-gong ( 496 ), which is clearly erroneous ^[18] .

• 522 (525) - The death of the philosopher Anaximenes of Miletus (588-522), the son of Euristrath, a disciple of Anaximander .
• 522, March - Cambyses dies during his return from Egypt.