The 620s BC
25 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.
628 BCE3 entries
- Traditional date of the foundation of Selinus by Megara Hyblaea.
627 BCE5 entries
- Traditional date for the foundation of Epidamnus by Corinth, today Durrës in Albania.
- Battle of Xiao, between the states of Jin and Qin in China.
- Sinsharishkun succeeds his brother Ashur-etil-ilani as king of Assyria (approximate date).
626 BCE3 entries
- 23 November -- Nabopolassar revolts against his Assyrian overlords, establishing the Neo-Babylonian Empire.
- Jeremiah begins his ministry in the Kingdom of Judah.
625 BCE4 entries
- Cyaxares becomes king of the Medes (approximate date)
- Orientalizing period of vases ends in Ancient Greece (approximate date).
- A wine pitcher (oenochoe) from Rhodes is finished, having been begun in 650 BC.
624 BCE1 entries
622 BCE2 entries
- The finding of one of the five books of Moses in Jerusalem by king Josiah.
621 BCE3 entries
- Draco's laws, the first written laws for Athens (approximate year)