680s BC
Millennium: | 1st millennium BC |
Centuries: | |
Decades: | |
Years: | |
Categories: |
|
Events and trends
- 689 BC—King Sennacherib of Assyria sacks Babylon.
- 687 BC—Gyges becomes king of Lydia.
- 685 BC- Chalcedon became a Greek colony.
- 682 BC—Death of Zhou zhuang wang, King of the Zhou Dynasty of China.
- 681 BC—Esarhaddon succeeds Sennacherib as king of Assyria.
- c. 680 BC—A meteor disaster on the Estonian island of Saaremaa, forming the Kaali crater.
Significant people
- ca. 680 BC—The Greek poet Archilochos is born on the island of Paros.
This article is issued from
Wikipedia.
The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike.
Additional terms may apply for the media files.