680s BC
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Centuries: 8th century BC - 7th century BC - 6th century BC
Decades: 730s BC 720s BC 710s BC 700s BC 690s BC - 680s BC - 670s BC 660s BC 650s BC 640s BC 630s BC
Events and trends
- 689 BC - King Sennacherib of Assyria sacks Babylon.
- 687 BC - Gyges becomes king of Lydia.
- 687 BC - Hezekiah succeeded by Manasseh as king of Judah.
- 682 BC - Death of Zhou zhuang wang, King of the Zhou Dynasty of China.
- 681 BC - Zhou li wang becomes King of the Zhou Dynasty of China.
- 681 BC - Esarhaddon succeeds Sennacherib as king of Assyria.
Significant people
- ca. 680 BC - The Greek poet Archilochos is born on the island of Paros.
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