7th century BC

(8th century BC – 7th century BC – 6th century BC – other centuries)

(700s BC – 690s BC – 680s BC – 670s BC – 660s BC – 650s BC – 640s BC – 630s BC – 620s BC – 610s BC – 600s BC – other decades)

(2nd millennium BC – 1st millennium BC – 1st millennium AD)

Events

• Scythians arrived in Asia
• Collapse of Susa, end of Elamite Empire
• Assyrians conquer Egypt (674 BC – 670 BC)
• Collapse of Nineveh, end of Assyria (612 BC)
• Zoroastrianism founded

Significant persons

• Hezekiah of the Kingdom of Judah (reigned 715 – 687 BC).
• Sennacherib, King of Assyria and conqueror of Babylon (705 – 681 BC).
• Gyges of Lydia (reigned 687 – 652 BC).
• Manasseh of Judah (reigned 687 – 643 BC).
• Esarhaddon, King of Assyria and conqueror of Egypt (reigned 681 – 669 BC).
• Archilochus of Thasos, poet (c. 680 – 645 BC).
• Josiah of the Kingdom of Judah (reigned 641-609 BC).
• Stesichorus of Sicily, lyric poet (c. 640-555 BC).
• Solon of Athens, one of the Seven Sages of Greece (638 – 558 BC).
• Thales of Miletus, Greek mathematician. (635 – 543 BC).
• Sappho of Lesbos, Ancient Greek poet.
• Zarathushtra (Zoroaster), founding figure of Zoroastrianism.

Inventions, discoveries, introductions

• First coins used by Lydians
• Iron allegedly discovered in China