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610s BC

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 10, 2026
Entity authorityQ1539892 ↗
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This article concerns the period 619 BC – 610 BC.

Events and trends

619 BC—Death of Ji Zheng, king of the Zhou dynasty of China.

618 BC—Silphium discovered in Cyrene according to Theophrastus.

618 BC—Ji Renchen becomes king of the Zhou dynasty of China.

616 BC—Lucius Tarquinius Priscus becomes the fifth King of Rome.

615 BC—Neo-Babylonian kingdom begin attacking Assyrian cities.

614 BC—Sack of Assur by the Medes and Babylonians.

613 BC—Death of Ji Renchen, king of the Zhou dynasty of China.

613 BC—King Zhuang of Chu ascends to the throne of Chu in China

612 BC—Ji Ban becomes king of the Zhou dynasty of China.

612 BC—An alliance of Medes, Persians, Scythians, Babylonians and Susianians besiege and conquer Nineveh at the Battle of Nineveh. King Sin-shar-ishkun of Assyria is killed in the sack.

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Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current 134-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where 610s and decade can be independently traced.
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