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The '7th century BC' started the first day of
700 BC and ended the last day of
601 BC.
Events
★
700 BC to
600 BC —
Baudhayana Sulbasutra, an orally transmitted
Vedic Sanskrit text on altar construction, contains the earliest extant verbal statement of the
Pythagorean theorem, which was likely known to (but not stated by)
Old Babylonians (1800 BC to 1600 BC).
★ End of 7th century BC — The
Medes from
Media (western
Iran) and the
Scythians from modern
Russia and
Ukraine invade the northern and eastern parts of
Assyria.
★
699 BC —
Khallushu succeeds
Shuttir-Nakhkhunte as king of the
Elamite Empire.
★
697 BC — Death of
King Huan of Zhou, King of the
Zhou Dynasty of
China.
★
696 BC —
King Zhuang of Zhou becomes King of the
Zhou Dynasty of
China.
★ 696 BC — The
Cimmerians ravage
Phrygia, possible migration of the
Armenians.
★
691 BC — King
Sennacherib of
Assyria defeats king
Humban-nimena of
Elam in the
Battle of Halule.
★
690 BC —
Taharqa, a king of the
Twenty-fifth Dynasty, ascends the throne of
Egypt (approximate date)
★
689 BC — King
Sennacherib of
Assyria sacks
Babylon.
★
687 BC —
Gyges becomes king of
Lydia.
★ 687 BC —
Hezekiah succeeded by
Manasseh as king of
Judah.
★
682 BC — Death of
King Zhuang of Zhou, King of the
Zhou Dynasty of
China.
★
681 BC —
King Li of Zhou becomes King of the
Zhou Dynasty of
China.
★ 681 BC —
Esarhaddon succeeds
Sennacherib as king of
Assyria.
★
677 BC — Death of
King Li of Zhou, King of the
Zhou Dynasty of
China.
★ 677 BC —
Esarhaddon leads the
Assyrian army against rebellious
Arab tribes, advances as far as the
Brook of Egypt.
★
676 BC —
King Hui of Zhou becomes King of the
Zhou Dynasty of
China.
★
675 BC —
Esarhaddon begins the rebuilding of
Babylon.
★
674 BC —
Esarhaddon puts down a revolt in
Ashkelon supported by
Taharqa, king of
Egypt. In response, the
Assyrians invade
Egypt, but
Taharqa is able to hold the invaders off.
★
673 BC —
Tullus Hostilius becomes king of
Rome.
★
671 BC —
Esarhaddon again invades
Egypt, capturing
Memphis as well as a number of the
royal family.
★
669 BC —
Assurbanipal succeeds his father
Esarhaddon as king of
Assyria.
★
668 BC —
Shamash-shum-ukin, son of
Esarhaddon, becomes King of
Babylon.
★
668 BC —
Egypt revolts against
Assyria.
★
668 BC — Estimation:
Nineveh, capital of
Assyria becomes the largest city of the world, taking the lead from
Thebes in
Egypt.
[1]
★
667 BC —
Byzantium founded by
Megaran colonists under
Byzas. (traditional date)
★
664 BC — First
naval battle in
Greek recorded history, between
Corinth and
Corcyra.
★
664 BC —
Assurbanipal captures and sacks
Thebes, Egypt.
★
664 BC —
Psammetichus I succeeds
Necho I as king of
Lower Egypt.
★
664 BC —
Taharqa appoints his nephew
Tantamani as his successor of
Upper Egypt.
★
February 11,
660 BC — Traditional founding date of
Japan by
Emperor Kia.
★
660 BC — First known use of the
Demotic script.
★
660 BC —
Psammetichus I drives the
Assyrians out of
Egypt.
★
650s BC — Occupation begins at
Maya site of
Piedras Negras, Guatemala.
★
657 BC —
Cypselus becomes the first
tyrant of
Corinth.
★
656 BC —
Psammetichus extends his control over all of
Egypt. End of
Twenty-fifth Dynasty.
★
653 BC —
Atta-Khumma-In-Shushinak and
Khumbanigash II succeed
Shilhak-In-Shushinak and
Tempti-Khumma-In-Shushinak as kings of the
Elamite Empire.
★
652 BC —
Babylonia rises in revolt under
Shamash-shuma-ukin against the
Assyrians.
★
651 BC —
King Xiang of Zhou becomes King of the
Zhou Dynasty of
China.
★
650 BC — The town of
Abdera in
Thrace is founded by colonists from
Clazomenae.
★ 650 BC — A
climate change affects all the
Bronze Age cultures in
Europe with colder and wetter climate, and tribes from the
Scandinavian Nordic Bronze Age cultures are pushed downwards into the
European continent.
★
640s BC —
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.
★
642 BC —
Ancus Marcius becomes king of
Rome (traditional date).
★
640 BC — Great victory of
Assyria over
Elamite Empire.
★
632 BC —
Cylon,
Athenian noble, seizes the
Acropolis in a failed attempt to become king.
★ 632 BC — In the
Battle of Chengpu, the
Chinese kingdom of
Jin and her allies defeat the kingdom of
Chu and her allies.
★
631 BC — Founding of
Cyrene, a
Greek colony in
Libya (
North Africa) (approximate date).
★ 631 BC —
Sadyates becomes king of
Lydia.
★
627 BC — Death of
Assurbanipal, king of
Assyria; he is succeeded by
Assur-etel-ilani (approximate date).
★
626 BC —
Nabopolassar revolts against
Assyria, founds the
Neo-Babylonian Empire.
★
625 BC —
Medes and
Babylonians assert their independence from
Assyria and attack
Nineveh (approximate date).
★
623 BC —
Sin-shar-ishkun succeeds his brother
Assur-etel-ilani as king of
Assyria (approximate date).
★
622 BC or
621 BC — Text of
Deuteronomy found in the
Temple in Jerusalem.
★
619 BC —
Alyattes becomes king of
Lydia.
★ 619 BC — Death of
King Xiang of Zhou, King of the
Zhou Dynasty of
China.
★
618 BC —
King Qing of Zhou becomes King of the
Zhou Dynasty of
China.
★
616 BC —
Lucius Tarquinius Priscus becomes king of
Rome.
★
614 BC — Sack of
Asshur by the
Medes and
Babylonians.
★
613 BC — Death of
King Qing of Zhou, King of the
Zhou Dynasty of
China.
★
612 BC —
King Kuang of Zhou becomes King of the
Zhou Dynasty of
China.
★ 612 BC — An alliance of
Medes,
Babylonians and
Susianians besiege and conquer
Nineveh. King
Sin-shar-ishkun of
Assyria is killed in the sack.
★ 612 BC —
Ashur-uballit II attempts to keep the
Assyrian empire alive by establishing himself as king at
Harran.
★ 612 BC — Estimation:
Babylon, capital of
Babylonia becomes the largest city of the world, taking the lead from
Nineveh, capital of
Assyria.
[2]
★
610 BC —
Necho II succeeds
Psammetichus I as king of
Egypt.
★
609 BC — King
Josiah of
Judah dies in the
Battle of Megiddo against
Pharaoh Necho II of
Egypt, who is on his way north to aid the rump
Assyrian state of
Ashur-uballit II.
★ 609 BC — The
Babylonians defeat the
Assyrian army of
Ashur-uballit II and capture
Harran.
Ashur-uballit, the last
Assyrian king, disappears from history.
★ 609 BC —
Jehoahaz succeeds his father
Josiah as
King of Judah, but is quickly deposed by
Necho, who installs
Jehoahaz's brother
Jehoiakim in his place.
★
607 BC — Death of
King Kuang of Zhou, King of the
Zhou Dynasty of
China.
★
606 BC —
King Ding of Zhou becomes King of the
Zhou Dynasty of
China.
★
605 BC —
Battle of Carchemish:
Crown Prince Nebuchadrezzar of
Babylon defeats the army of
Necho II of
Egypt, securing the
Babylonian conquest of
Assyria. The
Babylonians pursue through
Syria and
Palestine.
★ 605 BC —
Nebuchadrezzar II succeeds his father
Nabopolassar as King of
Babylon.
★
600 BC — Foundation of
Capua.
★
600 BC —
India — Age of the
Mahajanapadas — 16 great kingdoms rule India —
Kasi,
Kosala,
Anga,
Magadha,
Vajji (or Vriji),
Malla,
Chedi,
Vatsa (or Vamsa),
Kuru,
Panchala,
Machcha (or Matsya),
Surasena,
Assaka,
Avanti,
Gandhara,
Kamboja
★ 600 BC — Foundation of
Milan by
Celts (approximate date).
★ 600 BC — Foundation of
Marseille by
Phoceans (traditionial date).
★ 600 BC —
Smyrna sacked and destroyed.
★ 600 BC —
Nebuchadrezzar builds the
Hanging Gardens of Babylon.
★ 600 BC — (
LDS)
Lehi leads his family and some friends on pilgrimage from
Jerusalem to the
Americas.
★
Scythians arrived in
Asia.
Significant persons
★
Hezekiah of the
Kingdom of Judah (reigned
715–
687 BC)
★
Sennacherib,
king of Assyria and conqueror of
Babylon (
705–
681 BC)
★
Gyges of Lydia (reigned
687–
652 BC)
★
Manasseh of Judah (reigned
687–
643 BC)
★
Esarhaddon,
king of Assyria and conqueror of
Egypt (reigned
681–
669 BC)
★
Archilochus of
Thasos, poet (c.
680 BC–
645 BC). He is born on the island of
Paros
★
673 BC — Death of
Numa Pompilius, second of the
Kings of Rome, successor to
Romulus
★
670 BC — Death of
Mettius Fufetius,
Latin king of
Alba Longa
★
664 BC — Death of
Necho I, king of
Egypt
★
663 BC — Death of
Taharqa, king of
Egypt
★
653 BC — Death of
Tantamani, last king of the
Twenty-fifth dynasty of Egypt
★
652 BC — Death of
King Hui of Zhou, king of the
Zhou Dynasty of
China
★
652 BC — First recorded mention of King
Kuras of Parsumas, possibly the same as King
Cyrus I of Anshan, head of the
Achaemenid dynasty
★
645 BC — Death of
Guan Zhong,
Prime Minister of the
Chinese state of
Qi
★
Josiah of the
Kingdom of Judah (reigned
641 BC–
609 BC)
★
Stesichorus of
Sicily,
lyric poet (c.
640 BC–
555 BC)
★
Solon of
Athens, one of the
Seven Sages of Greece (
638 BC–
558 BC)
★
Thales of
Miletus,
Greek mathematician (
635 BC–
543 BC)
★
610 BC — Death of
Psammetichus I, king of
Egypt
★
610 BC — Birth of
Anaximander,
Greek philosopher
★
Sappho of
Lesbos,
Ancient Greek poet
Inventions, discoveries, introductions
★ The
Chinese discover
Printing.
★ First metal
coins used by
Lydians of western
Anatolia. Until c.
525 BC coins bore an image on one side only.
★
Iron allegedly discovered in
China.
Decades and Years
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