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 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 - Zhou li wang becomes 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