7th Century BC Western History


	The 7th Century BCE	600s BC

690s -	680s 689: Assyrians under Sennacherib sack Babylon. 683: Athenian monarchy replaced by the archonship (1 yr. term)
670s	660s - 667: Assyrians under Ashurbanipal defeat Elamites, sack Memphis and Thebes, bringing end to Nubian Dynasty of Egypt.
650s	640s 649: Assyrians under Ashurbanipal capture and destroy Babylon. Plutarch's Legendary Numa Pompilius
630s	620s 624: Draco addresses financial crisis of peasants in Athens with his Draconian Laws (very severe)
610s 615 Medes, under Cyaxares (Uvakhshatra) capture the Assyrian border city of Arraphkha. 614: Cyaxares besieges Nineveh, but fails to capture it. The Medes capture the Assyrian city of Assur. 612: After Medes and Babylonians enter alliance through marriage of Cyaxares' granddaughter to Nebuchadnezzar II, son of Babylonian ruler Nabopolassar, Ninevah falls to Medes and Babylonians. Some segments of the Assyrian army move capital to Harran. 610: Harran falls to the Babylonians. Assyrians set up headquarters at Carchemish.	600s 605 Babylonians under Nebuchadnezzar II defeat the Assyrians and their leader Ashur-uballitt II, at Carchemish. Pharoh Necho II of Egypt arrives too late to help, having been delayed by Jewish forces under King Josiah who was slain at Megiddo and being further delayed at Riblah. Upon arrival at Carchemish, Necho's army is defeated, chased to Hamath, and the Egyptian soldiers killed. 604: Babylonians capture Jerusalem, take Jewish leaders into captivity.

600s BC