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Sennacherib

king of Assyria

12 dated entries naming Sennacherib, drawn from 11 separate years between 705 BCE and 676 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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8th century BC

7th century BC

  • 700 BCE700 BC—Assyrian king Sennacherib launches another campaign into the Chaldean region, where the Babylonian rebel Merodach-Baladan II has been conspiring against him. Merodach-Baladan takes refuge in Elam, north of the Persian Gulf.source
  • 699 BCE699 BC—Sennacherib carries out his fifth military campaign in Babylonia, a series of raids against the villages around the foot of Mount Judi, located to the northeast of Nineveh.source
  • 693 BCE693 BC—Babylon is destroyed by the Assyrian king Sennacherib, but the city will be rebuilt in even greater splendor and luxury. He fights his way back north and captures various cities along the River Euphrates (or 691 BC or 689 BC).source
  • 692 BCE692 BC—Karib'il Watar of Saba' is recorded as having given "gifts" (tribute) to King Sennacherib of Assyria.source
  • 689 BCE689 BC—King Sennacherib of Assyria sacks Babylon. (or 691 BC)source
  • 682 BCE682 BC—Last year of the reign of Sennacherib, king of the Neo-Assyrian Empire.source
  • 681 BCE681 BC—King Sennacherib of Assyria is assassinated by one or two of his sons in the temple of the god Ninurta at Kalhu (Northern Mesopotamia) after a 24-year reign in which he defeated the Babylonians, made Nineveh (modern Iraq) a showplace, and diverted the waters of the Tigris River into a huge aqueduct to supply the city with irrigation.source
  • 681 BCE681 BC—Sennacherib, king of Assyriasource
  • 680 BCE680 BC—Esarhaddon succeeds Sennacherib as king of Assyria.source
  • 677 BCEFrom this year to 676 BC, Sennacherib's successor, King Esarhaddon, forced Tyre into tribute after campaigning in Khor and destroying Sidon in 679 BC.source
  • 676 BCEIn 679 BCE, Sennacherib's successor, King Esarhaddon, campaigned in Khor, destroyed Sidon, and forced Tyre into tribute from 677 BCE to this year.source

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