The 7th century BC

318 sourced entries across 91 documented years, grouped into 10 decades. A century here runs 1900–1999 rather than 1901–2000, so its decades sit inside it exactly; on the BC side the same rule puts 1–99 BC in the 1st century BC and 100 BC in the 2nd.

Decades

By subject

A few of the years

  • 699 BCE699 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.
  • 688 BCE688 BC—Greece's games of the 23rd Olympiad are held at Olympia; boxing is added to the Olympic Games that are more and more intended as preparation for war. Icarius of Hyperesia wins the stadion race at the 23rd Olympic Games.
  • 676 BCEZhou Hui Wang becomes King of the Zhou Dynasty of China.
  • 666 BCEKing Ashurbanipal undertook a campaign to Egypt.
  • 655 BCEThe Assyrian army invade Elam and overtake its twin capital cities Madaktu and Susa and install a king that is pro-Assyrian on the throne.
  • 644 BCEArdys succeeds his father Gyges as the second Mermnad king of Lydia. During his reign he finds payment of tribute to Assyria preferable to rule by the Cimmerians, who will be routed a few decades later.
  • 627 BCETraditional date for the foundation of Epidamnus by Corinth, today Durrës in Albania.
  • 614 BCEThe Medes and Babylonians sack Assur.