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Events and trends

Significant people

Events and trends

★ Assyrian king Ashurbanipal founds library, which includes our earliest complete copy of the ''Epic of Gilgamesh''.

★ 649 BC — Indabigash succeeds Tammaritu as a king of the Elamite Empire.

★ 649 BC — Babylonian revolt under Shamash-shuma-ukin is crushed by the Assyrians.

★ 648 BC — Pankration becomes an event at the Ancient Olympic Games.

★ April 6, 648 BC — Earliest Greek-chronicled solar eclipse.

★ 647 BC — King Assurbanipal of Assyria sacks Susa.

★ c. 647 BC — Assurbanipal and his Queen in the garden, from the palaca at Nineveh (modern Kuyunjik, Iraq) is made. It is now in The British Museum, London.

★ 642 BC — Ancus Marcius becomes the fourth King of Rome (traditional date).

★ 640 BC — Great victory of Assyria over Elamite Empire.

Significant people

★ 645 BC — Death of Guan Zhong, Prime Minister of the Chinese state of Qi

★ 645 BC — Death of Archilochos, Greek poet (approximate date)

★ 643 BC — Death of Manasseh of Judah

★ 641 BC — Josiah becomes king of Judah

★ 640 BC — Birth of Stesichorus, Greek poet (approximate date)