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Centuries
:
8th century BC
-
7th century BC
-
6th century BC
Decades
:
690s BC
680s BC
670s BC
660s BC
650s BC
-
640s BC
-
630s BC
620s BC
610s BC
600s BC
590s BC
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640s BC
Events and trends
Significant people
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Events and trends
Assyrian
king
Ashurbanipal
founds library, which includes our earliest complete copy of the
Epic of Gilgamesh
.
649 BC
-
Indabigash
succeeds
Tammaritu
as a king of the
Elamite Empire
.
649 BC
-
Babylonia
n revolt under
Shamash-shuma-ukin
is crushed by the
Assyria
ns.
648 BC
-
Pankration
becomes an event at the
Ancient Olympic Games
.
April 6
,
648 BC
- Earliest
Greek
-chronicled
solar eclipse
.
647 BC
-
King
Assurbanipal
of
Assyria
sacks
Susa
.
c. 647 BC -
Assurbanipal
and his Queen in the garden, from the palaca at
Nineveh
(modern
Kuyunjik
,
Iraq
) was made. It is now in The
British Museum
,
London
.
642 BC
-
Ancus Marcius
becomes the fourth king of
Rome
(traditional date).
640 BC
- Great victory of
Assyria
over
Elamite Empire
.
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Significant people
645 BC
- Death of
Guan Zhong
,
Prime Minister
of the
Chinese
state of
Qi
.
645 BC
- Death of
Archilochos
,
Greek
poet
(approximate date).
643 BC
- Death of
Manasseh of Judah
.
641 BC
-
Josiah
becomes king of
Judah
.
640 BC
- Birth of
Stesichorus
,
Greek
poet
(approximate date).
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