{"slug": "sennacherib", "label": "Sennacherib", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sennacherib", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q207140", "qid": "Q207140", "description": "king of Assyria", "entries": 12, "years": 11, "span": [-704, -675], "span_label": ["705 BCE", "676 BCE"], "topics": [{"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 10}, {"title": "Culture & Society", "count": 1}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "assyria", "label": "Assyria", "shared": 7}, {"slug": "babylonia", "label": "Babylonia", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "esarhaddon", "label": "Esarhaddon", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "nineveh", "label": "Nineveh", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "babylon", "label": "Babylon", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "tyre-lebanon", "label": "Tyre, Lebanon", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "sidon", "label": "Sidon", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "iraq", "label": "Iraq", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "mesopotamia", "label": "Mesopotamia", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "tigris", "label": "Tigris", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "assassination", "label": "Assassination", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "euphrates", "label": "Euphrates", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": -704, "year_label": "705 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "705 BC—Sennacherib succeeds his father Sargon II.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1361440079#Events_and_trends", "title": "700s BC (decade)", "revid": 1361440079, "section": "Events and trends"}}, {"year": -699, "year_label": "700 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "700 BC—Assyrian king Sennacherib launches another campaign into the Chaldean region, where the Babylonian rebel Merodach-Baladan II has been conspiring against him. Merodach-Baladan takes refuge in Elam, north of the Persian Gulf.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1361440079#Events_and_trends", "title": "700s BC (decade)", "revid": 1361440079, "section": "Events and trends"}}, {"year": -698, "year_label": "699 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "699 BC—Sennacherib carries out his fifth military campaign in Babylonia, a series of raids against the villages around the foot of Mount Judi, located to the northeast of Nineveh.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1292140577#Events_and_trends", "title": "690s BC", "revid": 1292140577, "section": "Events and trends"}}, {"year": -692, "year_label": "693 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "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).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1292140577#Events_and_trends", "title": "690s BC", "revid": 1292140577, "section": "Events and trends"}}, {"year": -691, "year_label": "692 BCE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": null, "text": "692 BC—Karib'il Watar of Saba' is recorded as having given \"gifts\" (tribute) to King Sennacherib of Assyria.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1292140577#Events_and_trends", "title": "690s BC", "revid": 1292140577, "section": "Events and trends"}}, {"year": -688, "year_label": "689 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "689 BC—King Sennacherib of Assyria sacks Babylon. (or 691 BC)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1368318910#Events_and_trends", "title": "680s BC", "revid": 1368318910, "section": "Events and trends"}}, {"year": -681, "year_label": "682 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "682 BC—Last year of the reign of Sennacherib, king of the Neo-Assyrian Empire.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1368318910#Events_and_trends", "title": "680s BC", "revid": 1368318910, "section": "Events and trends"}}, {"year": -680, "year_label": "681 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "681 BC—King Sennacherib of Assyria is assassinated by one or two of his sons in the temple of the god Ninurta at Kalhu (Northern Mesopotamia) after a 24-year reign in which he defeated the Babylonians, made Nineveh (modern Iraq) a showplace, and diverted the waters of the Tigris River into a huge aqueduct to supply the city with irrigation.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1368318910#Events_and_trends", "title": "680s BC", "revid": 1368318910, "section": "Events and trends"}}, {"year": -680, "year_label": "681 BCE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "681 BC—Sennacherib, king of Assyria", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1368318910#Deaths", "title": "680s BC", "revid": 1368318910, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": -679, "year_label": "680 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "680 BC—Esarhaddon succeeds Sennacherib as king of Assyria.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1368318910#Events_and_trends", "title": "680s BC", "revid": 1368318910, "section": "Events and trends"}}, {"year": -676, "year_label": "677 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "From this year to 676 BC, Sennacherib's successor, King Esarhaddon, forced Tyre into tribute after campaigning in Khor and destroying Sidon in 679 BC.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370510276#Events", "title": "677 BC", "revid": 1370510276, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": -675, "year_label": "676 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "In 679 BCE, Sennacherib's successor, King Esarhaddon, campaigned in Khor, destroyed Sidon, and forced Tyre into tribute from 677 BCE to this year.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370510319#Middle_East", "title": "676 BC", "revid": 1370510319, "section": "Events › By place › Middle East"}}]}