693 BCE

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). 693 BC—Death of Nergal-ushezib, king of Babylonia.

In the 690s BC, the 7th century BC.