679 BCE

Bartatua succeeds Išpakaia as king of Iškuza. The Assyrian king Esarhaddon (r. 681–669 BCE), the son of Sennacherib, defeated the Cimmerians and killed their king Teušpa at Ḫubišna. Esarhaddon appears to have reached Ḫubišna by passing through the Göksu River valley and bypassing the Anti-Taurus Mountains and Tabal proper. Esarhaddon, is mentioned in some texts as having taken a city called Arsa near the River of Egypt, and its king Asuhili was taken back to the Assyrian capital Ninveh.

In the 670s BC, the 7th century BC.

Geopolitics & Diplomacy

  • Bartatua succeeds Išpakaia as king of Iškuza.source
  • Duke Huan of Qi was officially rewarded hegemony by the Zhou king Xi in 679 BCE.source
  • Palaka of the Pradyota dynasty begins and ends reign according to Aryabhata.source

Conflict & Security

  • Esarhaddon campaigned in the Tabalian region against the Cimmerians from his base in Que and Ḫilakku, resulting in the defeat and killing of the Cimmerian king Teušpâ in Ḫubišna, who was succeeded by Dugdammî, and the annexation of a part of the territory of Ḫilakku and of the sub-kingdom of Kundu and Sissu in Que, whose king Sanduarri fled into the mountains, and of a part of the territory of Ḫilakku.source
  • The Cimmerians invade the westernmost provinces of the Assyrian Empire.source
  • The Cimmerians attacked Lydia for the third time, led by their king Lygdamis. The Lydians were defeated, Sardis was sacked, and Gyges was killed, following which he was succeeded by his son, Ardys, who was the father of Sadyattes.source
  • The Assyrian king Esarhaddon (r. 681–669 BCE), the son of Sennacherib, defeated the Cimmerians and killed their king Teušpa at Ḫubišna. Esarhaddon appears to have reached Ḫubišna by passing through the Göksu River valley and bypassing the Anti-Taurus Mountains and Tabal proper.source
  • Esarhaddon campaigned in Khor, destroyed Sidon, and forced Tyre into tribute from 677 to 676 BC.source
  • Esarhaddon, is mentioned in some texts as having taken a city called Arsa near the River of Egypt, and its king Asuhili was taken back to the Assyrian capital Ninveh.source

Exploration & Expansion

  • A large structure with a mudbrick self-supporting arch roof was discovered and dated to between this year and 630 BCE in Tell Jemmeh.source
  • The Cimmerians migrate to the east and west of Mannaea.source
  • The Assyrians used Cimmerians in their army as mercenaries; a legal document of 679 B.C. refers to an Assyrian ‘commander of the Cimmerian regiment’; but in other Assyrian documents they are called ‘the seed of runaways who know neither vows to the gods nor oaths’source

Culture & Society

  • Siomón Brecc's reign ends and is succeeded by Dui Finn, according to the chronology of Geoffrey Keating's Foras Feasa ar Éirinn.source

Deaths

  • Siomón Brecc, according to the chronology of Geoffrey Keating's Foras Feasa ar Éirinn.source
  • Teušpâ, king of the Cimmerianssource