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(probable date)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1357668226#Events_and_trends", "title": "730s BC", "revid": 1357668226, "section": "Events and trends"}}, {"year": -726, "year_label": "727 BCE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "727 BC: Babylonia makes itself independent of Assyria.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1363514202#720s_BC", "title": "8th century BC", "revid": 1363514202, "section": "Events › 720s BC"}}, {"year": -723, "year_label": "724 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "724 BC: The Assyrians start a four-year siege of Tyre.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1363514202#720s_BC", "title": "8th century BC", "revid": 1363514202, "section": "Events › 720s BC"}}, {"year": -719, "year_label": "720 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "720 BC—End of the Assyrian siege of Tyre.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1357668239#Events_and_trends", "title": "720s BC", "revid": 1357668239, "section": "Events and trends"}}, {"year": -716, "year_label": "717 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "717 BC—Assyrian king Sargon conquers the Neo-Hittite state of Carchemish.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1368385620#Events_and_trends", "title": "710s BC", "revid": 1368385620, "section": "Events and trends"}}, {"year": -704, "year_label": "705 BCE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "705 BC—Sargon II, king of Assyria.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1361440079#Deaths", "title": "700s BC (decade)", "revid": 1361440079, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": -699, "year_label": "700 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "700 BC—Assyrian king Sennacherib launches another campaign into the Chaldean region, where the Babylonian rebel Merodach-Baladan II has been conspiring against him. Merodach-Baladan takes refuge in Elam, north of the Persian Gulf.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1361440079#Events_and_trends", "title": "700s BC (decade)", "revid": 1361440079, "section": "Events and trends"}}, {"year": -692, "year_label": "693 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "693 BC—Babylon is destroyed by the Assyrian king Sennacherib, but the city will be rebuilt in even greater splendor and luxury. He fights his way back north and captures various cities along the River Euphrates (or 691 BC or 689 BC).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1292140577#Events_and_trends", "title": "690s BC", "revid": 1292140577, "section": "Events and trends"}}, {"year": -691, "year_label": "692 BCE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": null, "text": "692 BC—Karib'il Watar of Saba' is recorded as having given \"gifts\" (tribute) to King Sennacherib of Assyria.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1292140577#Events_and_trends", "title": "690s BC", "revid": 1292140577, "section": "Events and trends"}}, {"year": -688, "year_label": "689 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "689 BC—King Sennacherib of Assyria sacks Babylon. (or 691 BC)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1368318910#Events_and_trends", "title": "680s BC", "revid": 1368318910, "section": "Events and trends"}}, {"year": -680, "year_label": "681 BCE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "681 BC—King Sennacherib of Assyria is assassinated by one or two of his sons in the temple of the god Ninurta at Kalhu (Northern Mesopotamia) after a 24-year reign in which he defeated the Babylonians, made Nineveh (modern Iraq) a showplace, and diverted the waters of the Tigris River into a huge aqueduct to supply the city with irrigation.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1368318910#Events_and_trends", "title": "680s BC", "revid": 1368318910, "section": "Events and trends"}}, {"year": -680, "year_label": "681 BCE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "681 BC—Sennacherib, king of Assyria", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1368318910#Deaths", "title": "680s BC", "revid": 1368318910, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": -679, "year_label": "680 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "680 BC—Esarhaddon succeeds Sennacherib as king of Assyria.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1368318910#Events_and_trends", "title": "680s BC", "revid": 1368318910, "section": "Events and trends"}}, {"year": -676, "year_label": "677 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Esarhaddon leads the Assyrian army against rebellious Arab tribes and advances as far as the Brook of Egypt.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370510276#Events", "title": "677 BC", "revid": 1370510276, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": -674, "year_label": "675 BCE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "King Deioces dies after a 53-year reign that has established the kingdom of the Medes and its capital at Ecbatana (later Hamedan) in what will be northwest Persia. He is succeeded by his son Phraortes, who forms an anti-Assyrian alliance with the Cimmerians to subjugate the Persians and other Asian peoples.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370510298#Middle_East", "title": "675 BC", "revid": 1370510298, "section": "Events › By place › Middle East"}}, {"year": -670, "year_label": "671 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "King Esarhaddon of Assyria defeats the Kushite-Egyptian army of Pharaoh Taharqa and captures Memphis, along with a number of the royal family. He sets up a new Assyrian administration in Lower Egypt and withdraws.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370510320#Events", "title": "671 BC", "revid": 1370510320, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": -667, "year_label": "668 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Nineveh, capital of Assyria becomes the largest city of the world, taking the lead from Thebes in Egypt (estimation).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370510235#Middle_East", "title": "668 BC", "revid": 1370510235, "section": "Events › By Place › Middle East"}}, {"year": -666, "year_label": "667 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "King Ashurbanipal of Assyria resumes his late father's attack on Egypt (see 671 BC), recapturing Memphis and beginning an offensive into Upper Egypt.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370510245#Middle_East", "title": "667 BC", "revid": 1370510245, "section": "Events › By place › Middle East"}}, {"year": -655, "year_label": "656 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Thebes submits to the Egyptian ruler Psamtik I of Sais, who has allied himself with Gyges of Lydia and employs Libyan soldiers in a rebellion against Assyrian rule with help from Carian and Ionian mercenaries. Psamtik permits the city's mayor Mentuemhat to retain his position, who is not only the most powerful Theban but also the fourth prophet of Amon.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370510215#Egypt", "title": "656 BC", "revid": 1370510215, "section": "Events › By place › Egypt"}}, {"year": -654, "year_label": "655 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "The Assyrian army invade Elam and overtake its twin capital cities Madaktu and Susa and install a king that is pro-Assyrian on the throne.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372393593#Mesopotamia", "title": "655 BC", "revid": 1372393593, "section": "Events › By place › Mesopotamia"}}, {"year": -652, "year_label": "653 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Elamite forces attack southern Babylon. A large Assyrian army sent by king Ashurbanipal defeat the Elamites, in the Battle of Ulai, and kill their king, Teumman. He is succeeded by his nephew Ummanigash.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372215971#Middle_East", "title": "653 BC", "revid": 1372215971, "section": "Events › By place › Middle East"}}, {"year": -648, "year_label": "649 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "A revolt led by Shamash-shum-ukin is crushed by the Assyrians.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370510224#Events", "title": "649 BC", "revid": 1370510224, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": -647, "year_label": "648 BCE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Babylon falls to Assyrian forces after a 3-year siege (see 651 BC); starved out by his half brother Ashurbanipal, king Shamash-shum-ukin commits suicide in his burning palace, as the Assyrians slaughter his city's garrison and much of its population.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372392769#Middle_East", "title": "648 BC", "revid": 1372392769, "section": "Events › Middle East"}}, {"year": -646, "year_label": "647 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Elam refuses to extradite an Aramaean prince, giving the king Ashurbanipal of Assyria an excuse to invade the country. He sacks the city of Susa.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370510236#Middle_East", "title": "647 BC", "revid": 1370510236, "section": "Events › Middle East"}}, {"year": -643, "year_label": "644 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Ardys succeeds his father Gyges as the second Mermnad king of Lydia. During his reign he finds payment of tribute to Assyria preferable to rule by the Cimmerians, who will be routed a few decades later.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370510229#Asia_Minor", "title": "644 BC", "revid": 1370510229, "section": "Events › Asia Minor"}}, {"year": -639, "year_label": "640 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "King Ashurbanipal of Assyria achieves a great victory over Elam. He captures its last king, Khumma-Khaldash III, and lays waste to the country.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370510228#Middle_East", "title": "640 BC", "revid": 1370510228, "section": "Events › Middle East"}}, {"year": -626, "year_label": "627 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Sinsharishkun succeeds his brother Ashur-etil-ilani as king of Assyria (approximate date).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370510220#Events", "title": "627 BC", "revid": 1370510220, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": -614, "year_label": "615 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "The Neo-Babylonian Empire begins attacking Assyrian cities.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370510329#Events", "title": "615 BC", "revid": 1370510329, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": -611, "year_label": "612 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Ashur-uballit II attempts to keep the Assyrian state alive by establishing himself as king at Harran.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370510241#Events", "title": "612 BC", "revid": 1370510241, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": -608, "year_label": "609 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "The Medes and the Babylonians defeat the Assyrians under Ashur-uballit II and capture Harran. Ashur-uballit II, the last king of Assyria, disappears from history.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370510312#Events", "title": "609 BC", "revid": 1370510312, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": -608, "year_label": "609 BCE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Ashur-uballit II (probably), last king of Assyria", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370510312#Deaths", "title": "609 BC", "revid": 1370510312, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": -608, "year_label": "609 BCE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Battle of Megiddo—King Josiah is killed fighting against Necho II, who was on his way to aid the Assyrian state.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370510312#Events", "title": "609 BC", "revid": 1370510312, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": -604, "year_label": "605 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Battle of Carchemish: Crown Prince Nebuchadnezzar defeats the allied armies of Egypt and former Assyria, securing the Babylonian conquest of Assyria (approximate date).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370510331#Events", "title": "605 BC", "revid": 1370510331, "section": "Events"}}]}