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The 630s BC

21 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.

637 BCE4 entries

  • Sadyattes becomes king of Lydia.

636 BCE1 entries

  • Duke Wen of Jin becomes ruler of the State of Jin in Zhou dynasty China.

635 BCE2 entries

  • 635 BC—Death of Sadyattes, Lydia
  • 635 BC—Birth of Thales, Greek philosopher (d. 543 BC) (approximate date)

634 BCE2 entries

633 BCE3 entries

632 BCE5 entries

  • Cylon, Athenian nobleman, seizes the Acropolis in a failed attempt to become king.

631 BCE3 entries

  • Cyrene, a Greek colony in present-day Libya, North Africa, is founded by emigrants from the island of Thera (approximate date).
  • Sadyattes becomes king of Lydia.

630 BCE1 entries

  • 630 BC—Birth of Sappho (approximate date)