680s - Pharohs / Kings 690-664 Taharqa 715-687 Hezekiah 687-42 Manasseh 689: Assyrians under Sennacherib sack Babylon. 683: Athenian monarchy replaced by the archonship (1 yr. term)
670s - Pharohs / Kings 690-664 Taharqa 687-42 Manasseh
660s - Pharohs / Kings 690-664 Taharqa 664-57 Tantamani 26th Dynasty 664-525 672-664 Necho I 664-610 Psammetichus I 687-42 Manasseh 667: Assyrians under Assurbanipal defeat Elamites, sack Memphis and Thebes, bringing end to Nubian Dynasty of Egypt.
650s Pharohs / Kings 664-57 Tantamani 26th Dynasty 664-525 664-610 Psammetichus I Kings of Judah 687-42 Manasseh
640s Pharohs / Kings 664-610 Psammetichus I Kings of Judah 687-42 Manasseh 642-40 Amon 640-09 Josiah 649: Assyrians under Assurbanipal capture and destroy Babylon. Plutarch's Legendary Numa Pompilius
630s Pharohs / Kings 664-610 Psammetichus I 595-89 Psammetichus II King of Judah 640-09 Josiah
620s Pharohs / Kings 664-610 Psammetichus I 640-09 Josiah 624: Dracon addresses financial crisis of peasants in Athens with his Draconian Laws (very severe)
610s Pharohs / Kings 664-610 Psammetichus I 610--595 Necho II King of Judah 640-09 Josiah 615: Medes, under Cyaxares (Uvakhshatra) capture the Assyrian border city of Arraphkha. 614: Cyaxares besieges Nineveh, but fails to capture it. The Medes capture the Assyrian city of Assur. 612: After Medes and Babylonians enter alliance through marriage of Cyaxares' granddaughter to Nebuchadnezzar II, son of Babylonian ruler Nabopolassar, Ninevah falls to Medes and Babylonians. Some segments of the Assyrian army move capital to Harran. 610: Harran falls to the Babylonians. Assyrians set up headquarters at Carchemish.
600s Pharohs / Kings 610--595 Necho II Kings of Judah 640-09 Josiah 609 Jehoahz 609-598 Jehoakim 605: Babylonians under Nebuchadnezzar II defeat the Assyrians and their leader Ashur-uballitt II, at Carchemish. Pharoh Necho of Egypt arrives too late to help, having been delayed by Jewish forces under King Josiah who was slain at Megiddo and being further delayed at Riblah. Upon arrival at Carchemish, Necho's army is defeated, chased to Hamath, and the Egyptian soldiers killed. 604: Babylonians capture Jerusalem, take Jewish leaders into captivity.
600s BC