640s BC information

period 649 BC – 640 BC. Assyrian king Ashurbanipal founds a library, which includes our earliest complete copy of the Epic of Gilgamesh. 649 BC — Indabigash...

continent. 640s BC: Assyrian king Ashurbanipal founds library, which included our earliest complete copy of the Epic of Gilgamesh. 649 BC: Indabigash...

Josiah (/dʒoʊˈsaɪ.ə/) or Yoshiyahu was the 16th King of Judah (c. 640–609 BCE). According to the Hebrew Bible, he instituted major religious reforms by...

year 642 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. In the Roman Empire, it was known as year 112 Ab urbe condita . The denomination 642 BC for this...

period 639 BC – 630 BC. 639 BC - Interregnum ends and Ancus Marcius becomes the king of Rome. 637 BC — Sadyattes becomes king of Lydia. 636 BC — Duke Wen...

as its governor under the Assyrian king Ashurbanipal (r. 669–631 BC) in the 640s BC. In Assyrian tradition, the desecration of a dead body showed that...

millennium BC, also known as the last millennium BC, was the period of time lasting from the years 1000 BC to 1 BC (10th to 1st centuries BC; in astronomy:...

the northern kingdom of Israel, which the Assyrians had destroyed c. 720 BC, deporting much of its population. He re-instituted polytheistic worship and...

year 643 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. In the Roman Empire, it was known as year 111 Ab urbe condita . The denomination 643 BC for this...

concerns the period 629 BC – 620 BC. c. 627 BC—Death of Assurbanipal, king of Assyria; he is succeeded by Assur-etel-ilani. 627 BC—Creation of Durrës, at...

year 649 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. In the Roman Empire, it was known as year 105 Ab urbe condita . The denomination 649 BC for this...

year 645 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. In the Roman Empire, it was known as year 109 Ab urbe condita . The denomination 645 BC for this...

year 647 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. In the Roman Empire, it was known as year 107 Ab urbe condita . The denomination 647 BC for this...

year 641 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. In the Roman Empire, it was known as year 113 Ab urbe condita. The denomination 641 BC for this...

year 639 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. In the Roman Empire, it was known as year 115 Ab urbe condita . The denomination 639 BC for this...

year 631 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. In the Roman Empire, it was known as year 123 Ab urbe condita . The denomination 631 BC for this...

year 661 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. In the Roman Empire, it was known as year 93 Ab urbe condita . The denomination 661 BC for this...

year 627 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. In the Roman Empire, it was known as year 127 Ab urbe condita . The denomination 627 BC for this...

Pittacus (/ˈpɪtəkəs/; Greek: Πιττακός; c. 640 – 568 BC) was an ancient Mytilenean military general and one of the Seven Sages of Greece. Pittacus was a...

year 640 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. In the Roman Empire, it was known as year 114 Ab urbe condita . The denomination 640 BC for this...

year 633 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. In the Roman Empire, it was known as year 121 Ab urbe condita . The denomination 633 BC for this...

year 638 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. In the Roman Empire, it was known as year 116 Ab urbe condita . The denomination 638 BC for this...

year 634 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. In the Roman Empire, it was known as year 120 Ab urbe condita . The denomination 634 BC for this...

year 655 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. In the Roman Empire, it was known as year 99 Ab urbe condita . The denomination 655 BC for this...

year 624 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. In the Roman Empire, it was known as year 130 Ab urbe condita . The denomination 624 BC for this...

place between 655 and 639 BC. Clashes between the Elamites and the Assyrians had been ongoing for many years prior to 721 BC, the first recorded conflict...

year 628 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. In the Roman Empire, it was known as year 126 Ab urbe condita . The denomination 628 BC for this...