680s BC

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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 — 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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