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 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
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