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| Millennium: | 1st millennium BC |
| Centuries: | 8th century BC - 7th century BC - 6th century BC |
| Decades: | 710s BC 700s BC 690s BC - 680s BC - 670s BC 660s BC 650s BC |
| Years: | 689 BC 688 BC 687 BC 686 BC 685 BC 684 BC 683 BC 682 BC 681 BC 680 BC |
| Categories: | Births - Deaths - Architecture Establishments - Disestablishments |
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.
- c. 680 BC — A meteor disaster on the Estonian island of Saaremaa, forming the Kaali crater.
Significant people
- ca. 680 BC — The Greek poet Archilochos is born on the island of Paros.
