640s BC
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Centuries: 8th century BC - 7th century BC - 6th century BC
Decades: 690s BC 680s BC 670s BC 660s BC 650s BC - 640s BC - 630s BC 620s BC 610s BC 600s BC 590s BC
[edit] 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) was 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.
[edit] 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).
