670s BC

The '''670s BC''', or '''670s BCE''' are the decade that runs from '''679 BC to 670 BC'''. At the time it was known as '''75-84''' '''''Ab urbe condita''''' in Rome. The denomination 670s BC for this decade has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming decades. {{Decadebox BC|67}} {{BC year in topic|679}}

==Events and trends== thumb|Esarhaddon * Cimmerian invasion of Phrygia<ref>Bauer, Susan Wise (2007). ''The History of the Ancient World: From the Earliest Accounts to the Fall of Rome'', W.W. Norton. ISBN 9780393070897</ref><ref>Muhammad A. Dandamaev, Vladimir G. Lukonin (2004). ''The Culture and Social Institutions of Ancient Iran'', Columbia University Press. ISBN 9780521611916</ref> ===679 BC=== * Siomón Brecc's reign ends and is succeeded by Dui Finn, according to the chronology of Geoffrey Keating's ''Foras Feasa ar Éirinn''.<ref name=ffe>Geoffrey Keating, ''Foras Feasa ar Éirinn'' [http://www.ucc.ie/celt/published/T100054/text036.html 1.26]</ref> * The Assyrian king Esarhaddon ({{Reign|681|669 BCE}}), the son of Sennacherib, defeated the Cimmerians and killed their king Teušpa at Ḫubišna. Esarhaddon appears to have reached Ḫubišna by passing through the Göksu River valley and bypassing the Anti-Taurus Mountains and Tabal proper.<ref>{{cite book |last=Bryce |first=Trevor |author-link=Trevor R. Bryce |date=2012 |title=The World of The Neo-Hittite Kingdoms: A Political and Military History |url=https://archive.org/details/TheWorld.www.booksjadid.blogspot.com |location=Oxford, United Kingdom |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-199-21872-1}}</ref><ref>{{cite encyclopedia |editor-last1=Edzard |editor-first1=Dietz Otto |editor-link1=Dietz Otto Edzard |editor-last2=Calmeyer |editor-first2=P. |editor-link2=:de:Peter Calmeyer |editor-last3=Moortgat |editor-first3=A. |editor-link3=Anton Moortgat |editor-last4=Otten |editor-first4=H. |editor-link4=:de:Heinrich Otten |editor-last5=Röllig |editor-first5=Wolfgang |editor-link5=:de:Wolfgang Röllig |editor-last6=v. Soden |editor-first6=W. |editor-link6=Wolfram von Soden |editor-last7=Wiseman |editor-first7=D. J. |editor-link7=Donald Wiseman |last=Levine |first=L.D. |author-link= |date=1975 |title=Ḫupišna |encyclopedia=Reallexikon der Assyriologie und Vorderasiatischen Archäologie |trans-encyclopedia=Encyclopaedia of Ancient Near Eastern Studies |language=de |pages=500–501 |volume=4 |url= |location=Berlin, Germany; New York City, United States |publisher=Walter de Gruyter |isbn=978-3-110-06772-9 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Bryce |first=Trevor |author-link=Trevor R. Bryce |date=2009 |title=The Routledge Handbook of the Peoples and Places of Ancient Western Asia: From the Early Bronze Age to the Fall of the Persian Empire |url= |location=London, United Kingdom |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-0-415-39485-7 }}</ref><ref>{{cite encyclopedia |editor-last1=Streck |editor-first1=Michael P. |editor-link1=:de:Michael P. Streck |editor-last2=Frantz-Szabó |editor-first2=Gabriella |editor-last3=Krebernik |editor-first3=Manfred |editor-link3=:de:Manfred Krebernik |editor-last4=Bonacossi |editor-first4=D. Morandi |editor-last5=Postgate |editor-first5=J. N. |editor-link5=Nicholas Postgate (academic) |editor-last6=Seidl |editor-first6=Ursula |editor-link6=:de:Ursula Seidl |editor-last7=Stol |editor-first7=M. |editor-last8=Wilhelm |editor-first8=Gernot |editor-link8=:de:Gernot Wilhelm |last=Aro |first=Sanna |author-link= |date=2013 |title=Tabal |encyclopedia=Reallexikon der Assyriologie und Vorderasiatischen Archäologie |trans-encyclopedia=Encyclopaedia of Ancient Near Eastern Studies |language=de |pages=388–391 |volume=13 |url= |location=Berlin, Germany; New York City, United States |publisher=Walter de Gruyter |isbn=978-3-110-30715-3 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |editor-last1=Draycott |editor-first1=Catherine M. |editor-last2=Branting |editor-first2=Scott |editor-last3=Lehner |editor-first3=Joseph W. |editor-last4=Özarslan |editor-first4=Yasemin |last=Aro |first=Sanna |author-link= |date=2023 |chapter=Vanishing kingdoms: Tabal and Tuwana during the seventh century BC |title=From Midas to Cyrus and Other Stories: Papers on Iron Age Anatolia in Honour of Geoffrey and Françoise Summers |series=BIAA Monograph Series |url= |location=London, United Kingdom |publisher=British Institute at Ankara |pages=113–135 |isbn=978-1-912-09011-2 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |editor-last1=Radner |editor-first1=Karen |editor-link1=Karen Radner |editor-last2=Moeller |editor-first2=Nadine |editor-last3=Potts |editor-first3=Daniel T. |last=Weeden |first=Mark |date=2023 |chapter=The Iron Age States of Central Anatolia and Northern Syria |title=The Age of Assyria |series=The Oxford History of the Ancient Near East |volume=4 |url= |location=New York City, United States |publisher=Oxford University Press |pages=912–1026 |isbn=978-0-190-68763-2}}</ref> * Duke Huan of Qi was officially rewarded hegemony by the Zhou king Xi in 679 BCE.<ref>''Zuozhuan'' [https://zh.wikisource.org/wiki/%E6%98%A5%E7%A7%8B%E5%B7%A6%E6%B0%8F%E5%82%B3/%E8%8E%8A%E5%85%AC#%E5%82%B3_15 "Duke Zhuang - 15th year - zhuan"] quote: "十五年春，復會焉，'''齊始霸也'''。" translation based on Durrant, Li, & Schaberg (2016): "In the fifteenth year, in spring, they once again held a meeting there [i.e. at Juan 鄄]: '''Qi was for the first time acting as Overlord / Hegemon'''."</ref><ref>''Shiji'' [https://ctext.org/shiji/zhou-ben-ji#n4621 "Basic Annals of Zhou"] quote: "釐王三年，'''齊桓公始霸'''。" translation: "In King Xi's third year, '''Duke Huan of Qi for the first time acted as Hegemon / Overlord'''."</ref><ref>Durrant, Li, & Schaberg (translators) (2016). ''Zuo tradition: Commentary on the Spring and Autumn Annals''. fn. 68 on p. 722. Quote: "Lord Huan of Qi and Lord Wen of Jin figure in all versions."</ref> * Esarhaddon, is mentioned in some texts as having taken a city called Arsa near the River of Egypt, and its king Asuhili was taken back to the Assyrian capital Ninveh. * A large structure with a mudbrick self-supporting arch roof was discovered and dated to between this year and 630 BCE in Tell Jemmeh. * Bartatua succeeds Išpakaia as king of Iškuza.<ref name=st>{{cite book |editor1-last=Boardman |editor1-first=John |editor1-link=John Boardman (art historian) |editor2-last=Edwards |editor2-first=I. E. S. |editor2-link=I. E. S. Edwards |editor3-last=Hammond |editor3-first=N. G. L. |editor3-link=N. G. L. Hammond |editor4-last=Sollberger |editor4-first=E. |editor4-link=Edmond Sollberger |editor5-last=Walker |editor5-first=C. B. F. |last1=Sulimirski |first1=Tadeusz |author-link=Tadeusz Sulimirski |last2=Taylor |first2=T. F. |author-link2=Timothy Taylor (archaeologist) |date=1991 |title=The Cambridge Ancient History |volume=3 |chapter=The Scythians |issue=2 |url= |location=Cambridge |publisher=Cambridge University Press |pages=547–590 |isbn=978-1-139-05429-4}}</ref> * Esarhaddon campaigned in the Tabalian region against the Cimmerians from his base in Que and Ḫilakku, resulting in the defeat and killing of the Cimmerian king Teušpâ in Ḫubišna, who was succeeded by Dugdammî, and the annexation of a part of the territory of Ḫilakku and of the sub-kingdom of Kundu and Sissu in Que, whose king Sanduarri fled into the mountains, and of a part of the territory of Ḫilakku.<ref>{{cite book |last=Ivantchik |first=Askold |author-link=Askold Ivantchik |date=1993a |title=Les Cimmériens au Proche-Orient |trans-title=The Cimmerians in the Near East |url=https://www.zora.uzh.ch/id/eprint/151019/1/Ivantchik_1993_Les_Cimmerians_au_Proche-Orient.pdf |language=fr |location=Fribourg, Switzerland; Göttingen, Germany |publisher=Éditions Universitaires (Switzerland); Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht (Germany) |isbn=978-3-727-80876-0 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last=Lemaire |first=André |author-link=André Lemaire |date=1991 |title=Recherches de topographie historique sur le pays de Qué |trans-title=Historical Topography Research on the Country of Que |url=https://www.persee.fr/doc/anata_1018-1946_1991_num_1_1_1160 |journal=Anatolia antiqua. Eski Anadolu |volume=1 |publisher=Institut français des études anatoliennes |pages=267–275 |access-date=5 October 2025 }}</ref><ref>{{cite encyclopedia |editor-last1=Streck |editor-first1=Michael P. |editor-link1=:de:Michael P. Streck |editor-last2=Frantz-Szabó |editor-first2=G. |editor-last3=Krebernik |editor-first3=Manfred |editor-link3=:de:Manfred Krebernik |editor-last4=Morandi Bonacossi |editor-first4=D. |editor-last5=Postgate |editor-first5=J. N. |editor-link5=Nicholas Postgate (academic) |editor-last6=Seidl |editor-first6=Ursula |editor-link6=:de:Ursula Seidl |editor-last7=Stol |editor-first7=M. |editor-last8=Wilhelm |editor-first8=Gernot |editor-link8=:de:Gernot Wilhelm |last=Pruzsinszky |first=Regine |author-link=:de:Regine Pruzsinszky |encyclopedia=Reallexikon der Assyriologie und Vorderasiatischen Archäologie |trans-encyclopedia=Encyclopaedia of Ancient Near Eastern Studies |title=Sanduarri |language=de |date=2009 |pages=8–9 |volume=12 |location=Berlin, Germany |publisher=Walter de Gruyter |isbn=978-3-110-20384-4 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |editor-last1=Kim |editor-first1=Hyun Jin |editor-link1=Hyun Jin Kim |editor-last2=Vervaet |editor-first2=Frederik Juliaan |editor-last3=Adalı |editor-first3=Selim Ferruh |last=Adalı |first=Selim Ferruh |author-link= |date=2017 |chapter=Cimmerians and the Scythians: the Impact of Nomadic Powers on the Assyrian Empire and the Ancient Near East |title=Eurasian Empires in Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages Contact and Exchange between the Graeco- Roman World, Inner Asia and China |url= |location=Cambridge, United Kingdom |publisher=Cambridge University Press |pages=60–82 |isbn=978-1-107-19041-2}}</ref> * Esarhaddon campaigned in Khor, destroyed Sidon, and forced Tyre into tribute from 677 to 676 BC. * The Cimmerians attacked Lydia for the third time, led by their king Lygdamis. The Lydians were defeated, Sardis was sacked, and Gyges was killed, following which he was succeeded by his son, Ardys, who was the father of Sadyattes.<ref name="Spalinger">{{cite journal |last=Spalinger |first=Anthony J. |date=1978 |title=The Date of the Death of Gyges and Its Historical Implications |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/599752 |journal=Journal of the American Oriental Society |volume=98 |issue=4 |pages=400–409 |doi=10.2307/599752 |jstor=599752 |access-date=25 October 2021 |url-access=subscription }}</ref> * The Cimmerians migrate to the east and west of Mannaea. * The Assyrians used Cimmerians in their army as mercenaries; a legal document of 679 B.C. refers to an Assyrian ‘commander of the Cimmerian regiment’; but in other Assyrian documents they are called ‘the seed of runaways who know neither vows to the gods nor oaths’<ref>https://lifehopeandtruth.com/prophecy/12-tribes-of-israel/12-tribes-of-israel-today/</ref> * The Cimmerians invade the westernmost provinces of the Assyrian Empire.<ref name=world>{{Cite web|last=Mark|first=Joshua J.|year=2014|title=Esarhaddon|url=https://www.worldhistory.org/Esarhaddon/|access-date=23 November 2019|website=World History Encyclopedia}}</ref> * Palaka of the Pradyota dynasty begins and ends reign according to Aryabhata.{{Citation needed|date=April 2026}}

===678 BC=== {{main|678 BC}} * Phraortes becomes king of the Medes (according to the chronology proposed by Igor Diakonoff)<ref>{{Encyclopædia Iranica Online|volume=online|article=MEDIA|year=2006|first=Inna N.|last=Medvedskaya|first2=Muhammad A.|last2=Dandamayev|url=https://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/media|access-date=15 November 2025}}</ref> * Chu soldiers invade Zheng (according to the ''Zuo Zhuan'')<ref>{{Cite book |last=Zhao |first=Dingxin |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PIGhCgAAQBAJ |title=The Confucian-Legalist State: A New Theory of Chinese History |date=2015-09-22 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-046361-8 |page=118 |language=en}}</ref> * King Wen of Chu conquers the state of Deng. * King Xi of Zhou used his royal clout to give legitimacy to Wu of Quwo as the rightful duke of Jin<ref>{{citation |last=Blakeley |first=Barry B. |year=1979 |title= Functional disparities in the socio-political traditions of Spring and Autumn China: Part III: Ch'u and Chin |journal=Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient |volume=22 |issue=1 |pages=81–118 |doi=10.2307/3632147 |jstor=3632147 }}</ref> * The state of Jin became the first to maintain a standing army<ref>{{Cite book|last=Zhao|first=Dingxin|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wPmJCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA88|title=The Confucian-Legalist State: A New Theory of Chinese History: A New Theory of Chinese History|date=2015-10-16|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-935174-9|language=en}}</ref> * Jin–Quwo wars end (739–678 BCE), dynastic struggles between two branches of Jin's ruling house<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Dillon |first1=Michael |date=2016 |title=Encyclopedia of Chinese History |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2UAlDwAAQBAJ |location=Abingdon |publisher=Routledge |pages=872 |isbn=9781317817161 |access-date=5 December 2022}}</ref> * Kaštaritu is mentioned as "King of the Medes" in an inscription<ref>{{Citation |last=Howorth |first=Henry H. |author-link=Henry Hoyle Howorth |date=16 April 1892 |title=The Beginnings of Persian History |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_UQcAQAAMAAJ |periodical=The Academy |volume=XLI |location= London |access-date=8 June 2015 }}</ref> * According to Herodotus, Ecbatana was chosen as the Medes' capital by Deioces, the first ruler of the Medes. * Deioces united the Median tribes of Media and made the first Iranian Empire. * Chu had conquered most of the Nanyang Basin * Nekauba becomes pharaoh of the twenty-sixth dynasty of Egypt<ref>Priese, Karl-Heinz. ''Der Beginn der Kuschitischen Herrschaft in Ägypten'', ''ZÄS'' '''98''' (1970), pp.&nbsp;16–32.</ref> ====November==== * Two solar eclipses occur on the 1st and the 30th over the Penzhina Bay and the South Pacific Ocean respectively.<ref>{{cite web <!--note that dates in the source are given using astronomical dating--> |url=https://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEcat5/SE-0699--0600.html |title=Catalog of Solar Eclipses: −0699 to −0600 |publisher=NASA |access-date=December 15, 2019 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190322215551/https://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEcat5/SE-0699--0600.html |archive-date=March 22, 2019}}</ref>

===677 BC=== {{main|677 BC}} * Esarhaddon leads the Assyrian army against rebellious Arab tribes and advances as far as the Brook of Egypt.<ref name=grayson>{{Cite book|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OGBGauNBK8kC&pg=PA125|title=The Cambridge Ancient History Volume 3 Part 2: The Assyrian and Babylonian Empires and Other States of the Near East, from the Eighth to the Sixth Centuries BC|last=Grayson|first=A. K.|publisher=Cambridge University Press|year=1970|isbn=978-3111033587|chapter=Assyria: Sennacherib and Esarhaddon (704–669 BC)}} </ref> * From this year to 676 BC, Esarhaddon, forced Tyre into tribute after campaigning in Khor and destroying Sidon in 679 BC. * Esarhaddon recaptures the rebellious city of Sidon in Syria. The king of Sidon, Abdi-Milkutti, escapes by boat but is captured and executed a year later.<ref name=grayson />

===676 BC=== {{main|676 BC}}

==== By place ====

===== Greece ===== *Callisthenes of Laconia wins the stadion race at the 26th Olympic Games.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Eusebius: Chronicle (2) - translation |url=https://www.attalus.org/translate/eusebius2.html |access-date=2025-06-25 |website=www.attalus.org}}</ref>

===== China ===== *Zhou Hui Wang becomes King of the Zhou Dynasty of China.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Back |first=Youngsun |date=2021-07-13 |title=Who Should Ascend the Throne? : The Two Views of Korean Confucians |url=https://scholarworks.iu.edu/iupjournals/index.php/jwp/article/view/4161 |journal=Journal of World Philosophies |language=en |volume=6 |issue=1 |pages=58–72 |issn=2474-1795}}</ref>

===== Middle East ===== * The Cimmerians penetrate deep into Assyrian territory but are defeated by Esarhaddon and his army.<ref name=world />

===675 BC=== {{main|675 BC}} * The Elamite king Urtaku comes to power; during his reign, relations between Elam and Babylonia worsen.<ref name="Potts2015p269">{{cite book |author=D. T. Potts |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WE62CgAAQBAJ&pg=PA269 |title=The Archaeology of Elam: Formation and Transformation of an Ancient Iranian State |date=12 November 2015 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-1-107-09469-7 |page=269}}</ref> * King Deioces dies after a 53-year reign that has established the kingdom of the Medes and its capital at Ecbatana (later Hamedan) in what will be northwest Persia. He is succeeded by his son Phraortes, who forms an anti-Assyrian alliance with the Cimmerians to subjugate the Persians and other Asian peoples.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://iranicaonline.org/articles/deioces |title=DEIOCES – Encyclopaedia Iranica |access-date=2020-08-09 |website=iranicaonline.org}}</ref> * King Esarhaddon begins to rebuild Babylon (approximate date).<ref name=grayson /> * Teispes becomes a king of Anshan. * The Elamites invade Babylonia and capture Sippar. The conflict is resolved peacefully after the death of the Elamite king Khumban-khaltash II and Sippar is returned.<ref name=grayson /> * Esarhaddon's Treaty with Ba'al of Tyre ===674 BC=== {{main|674 BC}} * Esarhaddon puts down a revolt in Ascalon supported by Taharqa, king of Kush and Egypt. In response, the Assyrians invade Egypt, but Taharqa is able to hold them off.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Elayi |first=Josette |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0eOyEAAAQBAJ |title=Esarhaddon, King of Assyria |date=15 February 2023 |publisher=Lockwood Press |isbn=978-1-957454-95-5 |page=89 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=The Rescue of Jerusalem|date=2002|publisher=Soho Press, Inc.|isbn=1-56947-275-0|location=New York, NY|pages=x, 158–161|last1=Aubin|first1=Henry T.}}</ref> * Esarhaddon names his eldest son Sin-nadin-apli crown prince.<ref name=ahmed>{{Cite book|last=Ahmed|first=Sami Said|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ibF6DwAAQBAJ&q=Sin-apla-iddina|title=Southern Mesopotamia in the time of Ashurbanipal|publisher=Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG|year=2018|isbn=978-3111033587}}</ref>

===673 BC=== {{main|673 BC}} * Tullus Hostilius becomes the third king of Rome.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Duruy |first=Victor |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GQAoAAAAYAAJ |title=History of Rome and of the Roman People from Its Origin to the Establishment of the Christian Empire |date=1884 |publisher=D.Estes and C.E. Lauiat |page=150 |language=en}}</ref> * Esarhaddon unsuccessfully invades Egypt, one of the worst defeats of the Assyrian Empire.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Ephʿal|first=Israel|year=2005|title=Esarhaddon, Egypt, and Shubria: Politics and Propaganda|journal=Journal of Cuneiform Studies|publisher=University of Chicago Press|volume=57|issue=1|pages=99–111|doi=10.1086/JCS40025994|s2cid=156663868}}</ref>

===672 BC=== {{main|672 BC}} * (''estimated date'') Tullus Hostilius becomes the legendary third king of Rome.thumb|Tulius Hostilius * Sin-nadin-apli dies; Esarhaddon replaces him as heir with the younger son Ashurbanipal and designates his eldest son Shamash-shum-ukin as the heir to Babylon.<ref name=ahmed />

===671 BC=== {{main|671 BC}} * Esarhaddon again invades Egypt, this time successfully, capturing Memphis as well as a number of the royal family.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Esarhaddon|title=Esarhaddon|website=Encyclopædia Britannica|access-date=22 November 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Smith |first1=William Stevenson |last2=Simpson |first2=William Kelly |title=The Art and Architecture of Ancient Egypt |date=1 January 1998 |publisher=Yale University Press |isbn=978-0-300-07747-6 |page=235 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zJYMRcibM_QC&pg=PA235 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Thomason |first1=Allison Karmel |title=From Sennacherib's bronzes to Taharqa's feet: Conceptions of the material world at Nineveh |journal=IRAQ |date=2004 |volume=66 |page=155 |doi=10.2307/4200570 |jstor=4200570 |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/iraq/article/abs/from-sennacheribs-bronzes-to-taharqas-feet-conceptions-of-the-material-world-at-nineveh/D17D4A6C2CCD658A6B6985EA8D389BC8 |language=en |issn=0021-0889|quote=Related to the subject of entrances to buildings, the final case study that allows insight into conceptions of the material world at Nineveh and in Assyria concerns the statues of the 25th Dynasty Egyptian king Taharqa excavated at the entrance to the arsenal on Nebi Yunus. I have argued elsewhere that Egypt was a site of fascination to the Neo-Assyrian kings and that its material culture was collected throughout the period.|url-access=subscription }}</ref><ref>ABC 1 Col.4:30–33 and ABC 14:31–32, 37</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Welsby |first1=Derek A. |title=The Kingdom of Kush |date=1996 |publisher=British Museum Press |location=London, UK |isbn=071410986X |pages=103, 107–108, 158–169 |language=English}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Luckenbill |first=Daniel David |url=https://oi.uchicago.edu/sites/oi.uchicago.edu/files/uploads/shared/docs/ancient_records_assyria2.pdf |title=Ancient Records of Assyria and Babylonia |pages=290–296 |author-link=Daniel David Luckenbill |publisher=University of Chicago Press |year=1927}}</ref><ref>ABC 1 Col.4:25; also in ABC 14:28–29</ref><ref name="Radner 2003 165–183">{{Cite journal|last=Radner|first=Karen|date=2003|title=The Trials of Esarhaddon: The Conspiracy of 670 BC|url=https://repositorio.uam.es/handle/10486/3476|journal=ISIMU: Revista sobre Oriente Próximo y Egipto en la antigüedad|publisher=Universidad Autónoma de Madrid|volume=6|pages=165–183|via=}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ancient.eu/Esarhaddon/|title=Esarhaddon|last=Mark|first=Joshua J.|date=2014|website=Ancient History Encyclopedia|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=23 November 2019}}</ref> * Esarhaddon invades and conquers Egypt, bringing the Assyrian Empire to its greatest extent.<ref>{{cite book|last=Frahm|first=Eckart|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1FxzDgAAQBAJ|title=A Companion to Assyria|publisher=Wiley Blackwell|year=2017|isbn=978-1118325247|editor=E. Frahm|location=Hoboken|chapter=The Neo-Assyrian Period (ca. 1000–609 BCE)}}</ref> * The usurper Sasî unsuccessfully attempts to wrestle the throne from Esarhaddon.<ref>*{{Cite journal|last=Radner|first=Karen|date=2003|title=The Trials of Esarhaddon: The Conspiracy of 670 BC|url=https://repositorio.uam.es/handle/10486/3476|journal=ISIMU: Revista sobre Oriente Próximo y Egipto en la antigüedad|volume=6|pages=165–183}}</ref>

===670 BC=== {{main|670 BC}} * King Gyges of Lydia's name is written on the first Greek coins.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Dale |first=Alexander |date=2015 |title=WALWET and KUKALIM: Lydian coin legends, dynastic succession, and the chronology of Mermnad kings |url=https://www.academia.edu/29719834 |journal=Kadmos |volume=54 |issue= |pages=151–166 |doi=10.1515/kadmos-2015-0008 |s2cid=165043567 |access-date=10 November 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last=Browne |first=Gerald M. |author-link=Gerald Michael Browne |date=2000 |title=A New Lydian Text |url=https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/kadm.2000.39.1-2.177/html |journal=Kadmos |volume=39 |issue= 1–2|pages=177–178 |doi=10.1515/kadm.2000.39.1-2.177 |s2cid=161165986 |access-date=13 November 2021 |url-access=subscription }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last=Browne |first=Gerald M. |author-link=Gerald Michael Browne |date=2000 |title=The Tomb of Alyattes? |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/20190706 |journal=Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik |volume=132 |issue= |page=172 |doi= |jstor=20190706 |access-date=13 November 2021 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Bianconi |first=Michele |author-link= |date=2021 |title=Linguistic and Cultural Interactions between Greece and Anatolia: In Search of the Golden Fleece |url= |location=Leiden |publisher=Brill Publishers |pages=119–120 |isbn=978-9-004-46159-8 }}</ref> * Miletus begins establishing colonies in the Black Sea and Mediterranean Sea.<ref>{{Cite book |title=Miletos: a history |date=2002 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-0-203-99393-4 |editor-last=Greaves |editor-first=Alan M. |location=London New York}}</ref><ref name=msfe>Greaves, Alan M. ''Miletos: A History''. Routledge, 2002, pp. 74–78.</ref><ref name=knight>Knight, John Brendan. ''The proactive and reactive stimuli of Archaic Milesian colonization in the Black Sea before 494 B.C.E.'' The Open University, 2012, pp. 27–43.</ref><ref name=sack>Sacks, David. ''Encyclopedia of the Ancient Greek World''. Facts on File, 2005, p. 97.</ref><ref name=hfs>Greaves, Alan M. ''Miletos: A History''. Routledge, 2002, pp. 104–107.</ref><ref>Wilkinson, Toby C., and Anja Slawisch. "An Agro-Pastoral Palimpsest: New Insights into the Historical Rural Economy of the Milesian Peninsula." ''Anatolian Studies'', vol. 70, 2020, pp. 1–26.</ref>thumb|Map of the Black Sea, featuring the chronological phasing of major Milesian colonial foundations

==Significant people== * Esarhaddon, King of Assyria and conqueror of Egypt (reigned 681–669 BC) * Argaeus I, who acceded to the kingship of Macedon with his father's death; he reigned from c. 623 BC to c. 640 BC<ref>N.G.L., Hammond; Griffith, G.T. (1979). ''A History of Macedonia Volume II: 550-336 B.C''. Oxford: Clarendon Press. p. 4.</ref> * Zhou Hui Wang, ruler of China during the Zhou dynasty

==Births== ===675 BC=== * Ancus Marcius, 4th king of Rome<ref>https://sammlung.staedelmuseum.de/en/person/ancus-marcius#:~:text=king%20and%20politician%2C%20born%20ca.%20675%20B.C.%2C%20died%20616%20B.C..</ref>

==Deaths== ===679 BC=== * Siomón Brecc, according to the chronology of Geoffrey Keating's ''Foras Feasa ar Éirinn''.<ref name=ffe /> * Teušpâ, king of the Cimmerians * Išpakaia, king of Iškuza.<ref name=st /> * Gyges of Lydia<ref>{{cite journal |last=Spakinger |first=Anthony |date=1976 |title=Psammetichus, King of Egypt: I |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/40001126 |journal=Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt |volume=13 |issue= |pages=133–147 |doi=10.2307/40001126 |jstor=40001126 |access-date=2 November 2021 |url-access=subscription }}</ref><ref name="Spalinger" />

===678 BC=== {{main|678 BC}} * approximate date of death of Perdiccas I, king of Macedon * Min, Marquis of Jin<ref>{{cite book |last=Sima |first=Qian |author-link=Sima Qian |title=Records of the Grand Historian |volume=39 |chapter=House of Jin}}</ref> * Duke Wu of Qin, ruler of the state of Qin, had 66 people sacrificed and buried with him<ref name="shiji">{{cite web |url=http://www.guoxue.com/shibu/24shi/shiji/sj_005.htm |script-title=zh:秦本纪 |trans-title=Annals of Qin |work=Records of the Grand Historian |author=Sima Qian |author-link=Sima Qian |language=Chinese |publisher=guoxue.com |accessdate=1 May 2012}}</ref><ref name="han">{{cite book |title=Annotated Shiji |author=Han, Zhaoqi |year=2010 |publisher=Zhonghua Book Company |isbn=978-7-101-07272-3 |language=Chinese |chapter=Annals of Qin |pages=356–362}}</ref>

===677 BC=== {{main|677 BC}} * King Xi of Zhou, king of the Zhou Dynasty of China. * Abdi-Milkutti, king of Sidon. thumb|Abdi-Milkutti * King Wen of Chu<ref name=smq>{{Cite Shiji |40| zhu=y | chapter= 楚世家 | chapter-url=http://www.guoxue123.com/shibu/0101/00sj/040.htm }}</ref> * Duke Wu of Jin

===676 BC=== {{main|676 BC}} * Duke De of Qin<ref name="shiji" /><ref name="han" />

===675 BC=== {{main|675 BC}} * Deioces * Marquis Ai of Cai

===673 BC=== {{main|673 BC}} * Numa Pompilius, second of the Kings of Rome, successor to Romulus<ref>{{Cite book |last=Belliotti |first=Raymond Angelo |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=I3N2CgAAQBAJ |title=Machiavelli's Secret: The Soul of the Statesman |date=31 August 2015 |publisher=SUNY Press |isbn=978-1-4384-5721-5 |page=180 |language=en}}</ref>thumb|Numa Pompilius

====Autumn==== * Wen Jiang, princess of the State of Qi and duchess of the State of Lu<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www2.iath.virginia.edu/saxon/servlet/SaxonServlet?source=xwomen/texts/chunqiu.xml&style=xwomen/xsl/dynaxml.xsl&chunk.id=d2.9&toc.id=d2.9&doc.lang=bilingual |title=Book III. Duke Zhuang |work=Zuo Zhuan |author=Zuo Qiuming (translated by James Legge) |publisher=University of Virginia |language=Chinese, English |accessdate=16 May 2012}} Chapter II.</ref>

===672 BC=== {{main|672 BC}} * Du'ao, king of the Chinese state of Chu.<ref name=smq /> * Yukou<ref>{{cite book |title=Shiji |script-title=zh:史记 |language=Chinese |editor-last=Han |editor-first=Zhaoqi |year=2010 |publisher=Zhonghua Book Company |location=Beijing |isbn=978-7-101-07272-3 |chapter=Houses of Chen and Qi}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |script-title=zh:春秋左传注 |trans-title=Annotated Chunqiu Zuozhuan |editor-last=Yang |editor-first=Bojun |editor-link=Yang Bojun |year=2009 |publisher=Zhonghua Book Company |location=Beijing |isbn=978-7-101-07074-3 |edition=3rd revised |language=Chinese}}</ref>

====February==== * Ešarra-ḫammat, Queen of the Neo-Assyrian Empire<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Kertai|first=David|date=2013|title=The Queens of the Neo-Assyrian Empire|journal=Altorientalische Forschungen|volume=40|issue=1|pages=108–124|doi=10.1524/aof.2013.0006|s2cid=163392326}}</ref>

===670 BC=== {{main|670 BC}} * Mettius Fufetius, Latin king of Alba Longa * Oracle of Nusku

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