Mari, Syria
ancient Sumerian and Amorite city
8 dated entries naming Mari, Syria, drawn from 7 separate years between 2900 BCE and 1750 BCE. 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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29th century BC
26th century BC
- 2540 BCE2540 BC: Mesannepada, who has already dominated the city of Nippur, takes advantage of an eclipse of power in Kish (caused by an incursion by the Elamites of Awan) to seize the city. He becomes the ruler of all of Lower Mesopotamia as he becomes the king of Kish, and his name appears on a pearl in Mari.source
24th century BC
18th century BC
- 1792 BCEc. 1792 BC – 1750 BC: (middle chronology) – Hammurabi rules Babylonia and has to deal with Mari, which he conquers late in his career.source
- 1779 BCE1779 BC: Zimrilim, the King of Mari, starts to rule.source
- 1757 BCE1757 BC: Mari sacked by Hammurabi. Zimrilim's palace is destroyed.source
- 1757 BCE1757 BC: Zimrilim, the King of Mari, dies.source
- 1750 BCEc. 1750 BC: Investiture of Zimrilim (Zimrilim, King of Mari, before the Goddess Ishtar), facsimile of a wall painting on mud plaster from the Zimrilim palace at Mari (modern Tell Hariri, Syria), Court 106, is made. It is now in Musée du Louvre, Paris.source