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680s BC

Centuries: 8th century BC - 7th century BC - 6th century BC

Decades: 730s BC 720s BC 710s BC 700s BC 690s BC - 680s BC - 670s BC 660s BC 650s BC 640s BC 630s BC

Events and Trends

689 BC - King Sennacherib of Assyria razes Babylon (or 691 BC)
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 - Zhou li wang[?] becomes King of the Zhou Dynasty of China.

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