620s BCE in History
626 BCE | Nabopolassar revolts against the Assyrian Empire (which had ruled Babylon for the previous 200 years), and subsequently founds the Neo-Babylonian Empire. |
625 BCE | Medes and Babylonians assert their independence from Assyria and attack the Assyrian city Nineveh. |
622 - 621 BCE | Text of Deuteronomy found in the Temple in Jerusalem. |
620 BCE | The Archaic period (after the Greek Dark Ages) in Greece starts. |
Births in 620s BCE |
Sappho | - |
Aesop | 620 BCE |