670s BC

The 670s BC, or 670s BCE are the decade that runs from 679 BC to 670 BC. At the time it was known as 75-84 Ab urbe condita in Rome. The denomination 670s BC for this decade has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming decades.

Events and trends

679 BC

• Siomón Brecc's reign ends and is succeeded by Dui Finn, according to the chronology of Geoffrey Keating's Foras Feasa ar Éirinn.
• The Assyrian king Esarhaddon () defeated the Cimmerians and killed their king TeuÅ¡pa at ḪubiÅ¡na. Esarhaddon appears to have reached ḪubiÅ¡na by passing through the Göksu River valley and bypassing the Anti-Taurus Mountains and Tabal proper.
• Duke Huan of Qi was officially rewarded hegemony by the Zhou king Xi in 679 BCE.
• Esarhaddon, the son of Sennacherib, is mentioned in some texts as having taken a city called Arsa near the River of Egypt, and its king Asuhili was taken back to the Assyrian capital Ninveh.
• A large structure with a mudbrick self-supporting arch roof was discovered and dated to between this year and 630 BCE in Tell Jemmeh.
• Bartatua succeeds IÅ¡pakaia as king of IÅ¡kuza.
• Esarhaddon campaigned in the Tabalian region against the Cimmerians from his base in Que and Ḫilakku, resulting in the defeat and killing of the Cimmerian king TeuÅ¡pâ in ḪubiÅ¡na, who was succeeded by Dugdammî, and the annexation of a part of the territory of Ḫilakku and of the sub-kingdom of Kundu and Sissu in Que, whose king Sanduarri fled into the mountains, and of a part of the territory of Ḫilakku.
• Sennacherib's successor, King Esarhaddon, campaigned in Khor, destroyed Sidon, and forced Tyre into tribute from 677 to 676 BC.
• The Cimmerians attacked Lydia for the third time, led by their king Lygdamis. The Lydians were defeated, Sardis was sacked, and Gyges was killed, following which he was succeeded by his son, Ardys, who was the father of Sadyattes.
• The Cimmerians migrate to the east and west of Mannaea.
• The Assyrians used Cimmerians in their army as mercenaries; a legal document of 679 B.C. refers to an Assyrian ‘commander of the Cimmerian regiment’; but in other Assyrian documents they are called ‘the seed of runaways who know neither vows to the gods nor oaths’

678 BC

• Phraortes becomes king of the Medes (according to the chronology proposed by Igor Diakonoff)
• Chu soldiers invade Zheng (according to the Zuo Zhuan)
• King Wen of Chu conquers the state of Deng.
• King Xi of Zhou used his royal clout to give legitimacy to Wu of Quwo as the rightful duke of Jin
• The state of Jin became the first to maintain a standing army
• Jin–Quwo wars end (739–678 BCE), dynastic struggles between two branches of Jin's ruling house
• KaÅ¡taritu is mentioned as "King of the Medes" in an inscription
• According to Herodotus, Ecbatana was chosen as the Medes' capital by Deioces, the first ruler of the Medes.
• Deioces united the Median tribes of Media and made the first Iranian Empire.
• Chu had conquered most of the Nanyang Basin
• Nekauba becomes pharaoh of the twenty-sixth dynasty of Egypt

November

• Two solar eclipses occur on the 1st and the 30th over the Penzhina Bay and the South Pacific Ocean respectively.

677 BC

• Esarhaddon leads the Assyrian army against rebellious Arab tribes and advances as far as the Brook of Egypt.
• From this year to 676 BC, Sennacherib's successor, King Esarhaddon, forced Tyre into tribute after campaigning in Khor and destroying Sidon in 679 BC.

676 BC

By place

Greece

• Callisthenes of Laconia wins the stadion race at the 26th Olympic Games.

China

• Zhou Hui Wang becomes King of the Zhou Dynasty of China.

Middle East

• From 677 BC to this year, Sennacherib's successor, King Esarhaddon, forced Tyre into tribute after campaigning in Khor and destroying Sidon in 679 BC.

675 BC

• The Elamite king Urtaku comes to power; during his reign, relations between Elam and Babylonia worsen.
• King Deioces dies after a 53-year reign that has established the kingdom of the Medes and its capital at Ecbatana (later Hamedan) in what will be northwest Persia. He is succeeded by his son Phraortes, who forms an anti-Assyrian alliance with the Cimmerians to subjugate the Persians and other Asian peoples.
• King Esarhaddon begins to rebuild Babylon (approximate date).
• Teispes becomes a king of Anshan.

674 BC

• Esarhaddon puts down a revolt in Ascalon supported by Taharqa, king of Kush and Egypt. In response, the Assyrians invade Egypt, but Taharqa is able to hold them off.

673 BC

• Tullus Hostilius becomes the third king of Rome.

672 BC

• (estimated date) Tullus Hostilius becomes the legendary third king of Rome.

671 BC

• Esarhaddon again invades Egypt, this time successfully, capturing Memphis as well as a number of the royal family.

670 BC

• King Gyges of Lydia's name is written on the first Greek coins.
• Miletus begins establishing colonies in the Black Sea and Mediterranean Sea.

Significant people

• Esarhaddon, King of Assyria and conqueror of Egypt (reigned 681–669 BC)
• Argaeus I, who acceded to the kingship of Macedon with his father's death; he reigned from c. 623 BC to c. 640 BC
• Zhou Hui Wang, ruler of China during the Zhou dynasty

Births

675 BC

• Ancus Marcius, 4th king of Rome

Deaths

679 BC

• Siomón Brecc, according to the chronology of Geoffrey Keating's Foras Feasa ar Éirinn.
• TeuÅ¡pâ, king of the Cimmerians
• IÅ¡pakaia, king of IÅ¡kuza.
• Gyges of Lydia

678 BC

• approximate date of death of Perdiccas I, king of Macedon
• Min, Marquis of Jin
• Duke Wu of Qin, ruler of the state of Qin, had 66 people sacrificed and buried with him

677 BC

• King Xi of Zhou, king of the Zhou Dynasty of China.
• Abdi-Milkutti, king of Sidon.
• King Wen of Chu
• Duke Wu of Jin

676 BC

• Duke De of Qin

675 BC

• Deioces
• Marquis Ai of Cai

673 BC

• Numa Pompilius, second of the Kings of Rome, successor to Romulus

Autumn

• Wen Jiang, princess of the State of Qi and duchess of the State of Lu

672 BC

• Du'ao, king of the Chinese state of Chu.
• Yukou

February

• EÅ¡arra-ḫammat, Queen of the Neo-Assyrian Empire

670 BC

• Mettius Fufetius, Latin king of Alba Longa
• Oracle of Nusku

References