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This article concerns the period 669 BC – 660 BC.
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Events
- 669 BC: Taharqa, king of Kush, invades and reconquers Egypt from the Assyrian Empire.
- 669 BC: Esarhaddon, king of Assyria, dies in Harran on his way to recover Egypt.
- 669 BC: Argos defeats the Spartans at Battle of Hysiae.[1]
- 668 BC: Ashurbanipal, son of Esarhaddon, starts to rule Assyria.
- 668 BC: Shamash-shum-ukin, son of Esarhaddon, becomes King of Babylon.
- 668 BC: Nineveh, capital of Assyria becomes the largest city of the world, taking the lead from Thebes in Egypt (estimation).[2]
- 667 BC: Traditional date of the founding of Byzantium by Megaran colonists under Byzas.
- 666 BC: Ashurbanipal sends a small Assyrian army corps to Egypt which recovers Lower Egypt from Taharqa's forces.[3]
- 664 BC: First naval battle in Greek recorded history, between Corinth and Corcyra.
- 664 BC: Tantamani succeeds his uncle Taharqa as king of Kush. He invades Egypt to try to take it back.[4]
- 664 BC: Necho I, puppet Pharaoh of Egypt, is killed by invading Kushite forces under Tantamani.[5]
- 664–663 BC: There was an extreme solar particle event comparable with the 774–775 carbon-14 spike.[6][7] The estimated strength of the event is about 2 orders of magnitude stronger than anything that has been recorded instrumentally since the beginning of the Space Age.
- 663 BC: Assyrian army captures and sacks Thebes, Egypt, ending the Nubian period in Egypt.[8]
- 660 BC: Traditional founding date of Japan by Emperor Jimmu on 11 February.
- 660 BC: First known use of the Demotic script.
- 660 BC: Mythical founding of the Japanese royal family.
References
- ^ Sealey, Raphael (1976). A History of the Greek City States, 700–338 B.C. Berkeley: University of California Press. p. 41.
- ^ "What Were the Largest Cities Throughout History?". Archived from the original on 2016-08-18. Retrieved 2006-03-01.
- ^ Kitchen, Kenneth (2015). The Third Intermediate Period in Egypt (1100–650 BC) (3rd ed.). Oxford: Aris & Phillips Limited. §§ 353. ISBN 978-0-85668-298-8.
- ^ Kitchen, Kenneth (2015). The Third Intermediate Period in Egypt (1100–650 BC) (3rd ed.). Oxford: Aris & Phillips Limited. § 354. ISBN 978-0-85668-298-8.
- ^ Kitchen, Kenneth (2015). The Third Intermediate Period in Egypt (1100–650 BC) (3rd ed.). Oxford: Aris & Phillips Limited. §§ 117, 138, 354. ISBN 978-0-85668-298-8.
- ^ Paschal O'Hare (2019). "Multiradionuclide evidence for an extreme solar proton event around 2,610 B.P. (~660 BC)". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 116 (13): 5961–5966. Bibcode:2019PNAS..116.5961O. doi:10.1073/pnas.1815725116. PMC 6442557. PMID 30858311.
- ^ Panyushkina, Irina P.; Jull, A. J. Timothy; Molnár, Mihaly; Varga, Tamás; Kontul’, Ivan; Hantemirov, Rashit; Kukarskih, Vladymir; Sljusarenko, Igor; Myglan, Vladymir; Livina, Valerie (2024-08-23). "The timing of the ca-660 BCE Miyake solar-proton event constrained to between 664 and 663 BCE". Communications Earth & Environment. 5 (1) 454: 1–9. Bibcode:2024ComEE...5..454P. doi:10.1038/s43247-024-01618-x. ISSN 2662-4435. PMC 11343717. PMID 39185327.
- ^ Kitchen, Kenneth (2015). The Third Intermediate Period in Egypt (1100–650 BC) (3rd ed.). Oxford: Aris & Phillips Limited. § 355. ISBN 978-0-85668-298-8.