7th century BC

(8th century BC - 7th century BC - 6th century BC - other centuries)

(700s BC - 690s BC - 680s BC - 670s BC - 660s BC - 650s BC - 640s BC - 630s BC - 620s BC - 610s BC - 600s BC - other decades)

(2nd millennium BC - 1st millennium BC - 1st millennium AD)

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Events

• Scythians arrived in Asia
• Collapse of Susa, end of Elamite Empire
• Assyrians conquer Egypt (674 BC - 670 BC)
• Collapse of Nineveh, end of Assyria (612 BC)
• Zoroastrianism founded

Significant persons

• Hezekiah of the Kingdom of Judah (reigned 715 - 687 BC).
• Sennacherib, King of Assyria and conqueror of Babylon (705 - 681 BC).
• Gyges of Lydia (reigned 687 - 652 BC).
• Manasseh of Judah (reigned 687 - 643 BC).
• Esarhaddon, King of Assyria and conqueror of Egypt (reigned 681 - 669 BC).
• Archilochus of Thasos, poet (c. 680 - 645 BC).
• Josiah of the Kingdom of Judah (reigned 641-609 BC).
• Stesichorus of Sicily, lyric poet (c. 640-555 BC).
• Solon of Athens, one of the Seven Sages of Greece (638 - 558 BC).
• Thales of Miletus, Greek mathematician. (635 - 543 BC).
• Sappho of Lesbos, Ancient Greek poet.
• Zarathushtra (Zoroaster), founding figure of Zoroastrianism.

Inventions, discoveries, introductions

• First coins used by Lydians
• Iron allegedly discovered in China