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The 610s BC

19 sourced entries across 8 years, inside the 7th century BC. Each year below opens its own page; the lines under it are that year’s highest-ranked entries.

619 BCE2 entries

  • Sadyattes dies and is succeeded as king of Lydia by his son Alyattes.

618 BCE2 entries

  • King Qing of Zhou succeeds his father King Xiang of Zhou as ruler of the Chinese Zhou dynasty.

616 BCE2 entries

  • Lucius Tarquinius Priscus becomes the legendary fifth king of Rome.

615 BCE2 entries

  • The Neo-Babylonian Empire begins attacking Assyrian cities.

614 BCE1 entries

  • The Medes and Babylonians sack Assur.

613 BCE3 entries

  • King Zhuang of Chu becomes king of Chu in China.

612 BCE4 entries

  • Ashur-uballit II attempts to keep the Assyrian state alive by establishing himself as king at Harran.
  • Battle of Nineveh: An allied army of Babylonians, Medes, Scythians, and Susianians besieges and conquers Nineveh, capital of the Neo-Assyrian Empire. Sinsharishkun, King of Assyria, is killed in the sacking.
  • Babylon, capital of the Neo-Babylonian Empire, becomes the largest city in the world, taking the lead from Nineveh.

610 BCE3 entries

  • Naucratis, a city in Egypt, is founded, eventually becoming one of the more prominent cities of that nation.
  • Necho II succeeds Psamtik I as king of Egypt.