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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