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This article concerns the period 699 BC – 690 BC.
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Events and trends
[edit]- 699 BC—Hallashu-Inshushinak (Khallushu) succeeds Shuttir-Nakhkhunte as king of the Elamite Empire.[1][2]
- 699 BC—Manasseh succeeds Hezekiah as king of Judah. The first king who did not have an experience with the Kingdom of Israel, Manasseh ruled with his mother, Hephzibah, as regent.[3]
- 699 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.[4][5]
- 697 BC—Birth of Duke Wen of Jin in China.
- 697 BC—Death of King Huan of Zhou in China.
- 697 BC—Hezekiah succeeded by Manasseh as king of Judah.
- 696 BC—King Zhuang of Zhou begins his reign in China.
- 696 BC—The Cimmerians ravage Phrygia, possible migration of the Armenians.
- 696 BC—Pantacles of Athens wins the stadion race at the 21st Olympic Games.[6]
- 692 BC—Karib'il Watar of Saba' is recorded as having given "gifts" (tribute) to King Sennacherib of Assyria.
- 692 BC—Pantacles wins the stadion race for a second time and the diaulos at the 22nd Olympic Games.[6]
- 691 BC—King Sennacherib of Assyria defeats king Humban-nimena of Elam in the Battle of Halule.
- 690 BC—Taharqa, a king of the Twenty-fifth Dynasty, ascends the throne of Egypt (approximate date)
- c. 690 BC—Death of Manava, author of the Indian geometric text of Sulba Sutras.
- 690s BC—W'rn Hywt of D'mt in Ethiopia appears in the inscriptional record and mentions the king of Saba', Karib'il Watar.
Significant People
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References
[edit]- ^ Cavendish, Marshall (September 2006). World and Its Peoples. Marshall Cavendish. ISBN 978-0-7614-7571-2.
- ^ Carter, Elizabeth (1984). Elam : surveys of political history and archaeology. Internet Archive. Berkeley : University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-09950-0.
- ^ "CANADIAN HISTORY A DISTINCT VIEWPOINT: EUROPEAN & ASIAN HISTORY 700 - 481 BC". metis-history.info. Archived from the original on 2015-06-29.
- ^ Luckenbill, Daniel David (2005-09-16). The Annals of Sennacherib. Wipf and Stock Publishers. ISBN 978-1-59752-372-1.
- ^ Levine, Louis D. (1982). "Sennacherib's Southern Front: 704-689 B.C." Journal of Cuneiform Studies. 34 (1–2): 28–58. doi:10.2307/1359991. ISSN 0022-0256. JSTOR 1359991. S2CID 163170919.
- ^ a b Eusebius of Caesarea, Chronicle [1].