640 BCE King Teispes dies after a 35-year reign in which he has ruled the Elamite city of Anshan after being freed from Median supremacy. The interregnum in Rome ends. Ancus Marcius becomes the fourth king of Rome. King Ashurbanipal of Assyria achieves a great victory over Elam. He captures its last king, Khumma-Khaldash III, and lays waste to the country.
In the 640s BC , the 7th century BC .
The interregnum in Rome ends. Ancus Marcius becomes the fourth king of Romesource King Ashurbanipal of Assyria achieves a great victory over Elam. He captures its last king, Khumma-Khaldash III, and lays waste to the country.source Theagenes becomes tyrant at Megara.source Kolaios of Samos reaches the Strait of Gibraltar.source Josiah, reigns as the sixteenth King of Judah (r. 640 - 609 BCE)source Births Stesichorus, Greek lyric poet (approximate date)source Pittacus of Mytilene, one of the Seven Sages of Greece (approximate date)source Deaths Teispes, son of Achaemenes and ancestor of Cyrus the Greatsource Argaeus I, king of Macedonia (approximate date)source King Teispes dies after a 35-year reign in which he has ruled the Elamite city of Anshan after being freed from Median supremacy.source Nearby 641 BCE–632 BCE 10 of 10 sourced entries shown. Every line above is quoted from the revision linked beside it, which is 640 BC on English Wikipedia, revision 1370510228, retrieved 2026-09-06. Nothing on this page is written by us and nothing is generated: the sentences are the source’s own, so a claim you doubt can be checked against the exact revision it came from. Text is reused under CC BY-SA 4.0 .