Assyrians

ethnic group native to Mesopotamia

7 dated entries naming Assyrians, drawn from 7 separate years between 841 BCE and 1933 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

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9th century BC

841 BCE841 BC—The First Assyrian Invasion of Israel.source

8th century BC

722 BCE722 BC: Israel is conquered by Assyrian king Sargon II.source

7th century BC

696 BCE696 BC—Cimmerian forces begin a conquest of Phrygia (modern Turkey), having failed in their efforts to defeat the Assyrians and moved into Anatolia.source
679 BCEThe Assyrian king Esarhaddon (r. 681–669 BCE), the son of Sennacherib, defeated the Cimmerians and killed their king Teušpa at Ḫubišna. Esarhaddon appears to have reached Ḫubišna by passing through the Göksu River valley and bypassing the Anti-Taurus Mountains and Tabal proper.source

10th century

957957 Caspian Sea earthquake. It took place in the Caspian Sea and its vicinity. The earthquake is mentioned by several Arab and Syriac chronicle writers, who claimed that it mainly affected the region of Persian Iraq. The initial shocks lasted 40 days, but ceased for a while. The main earthquake then occurred, damaging the cities of Ray, Talikan, and Hulwan. A reported number of 150 villages were supposedly destroyed by the earthquake.source

20th century

1915April 21 – On the orders of Talat Pasha, Haydar Bey organized an expedition against the Assyrians. He killed thousands of Assyrians along with Kurdish tribes.source
1933August 7 – Simele massacre: More than 3,000 Assyrian Iraqis are killed by Iraqi government troops.source