7th Century BC - Significant Persons

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 BC–645 BC). He is born on the island of Paros
• 673 BC—Death of Numa Pompilius, second of the Kings of Rome, successor to Romulus
• 670 BC—Death of Mettius Fufetius, Latin king of Alba Longa
• 664 BC—Death of Necho I, king of Egypt
• 663 BC—Death of Taharqa, king of Egypt
• 653 BC—Death of Tantamani, last king of the Twenty-fifth dynasty of Egypt
• 652 BC—Death of King Hui of Zhou, king of the Zhou Dynasty of China
• 652 BC—First recorded mention of King Kuras of Parsumas, possibly the same as King Cyrus I of Anshan, head of the Achaemenid dynasty
• Tyrtaeus—Ancient Greek poet, general and musician
• 645 BC—Death of Guan Zhong, Prime Minister of the Chinese state of Qi
• Josiah of the Kingdom of Judah (reigned 641 BC–609 BC)
• Stesichorus of Sicily, lyric poet (c. 640 BC–555 BC)
• Solon of Athens, one of the Seven Sages of Greece (638 BC–558 BC)
• Thales of Miletus, Greek mathematician (635 BC–543 BC)
• 610 BC—Death of Psammetichus I, king of Egypt
• 610 BC—Birth of Anaximander, Greek philosopher
• Sappho of Lesbos, Ancient Greek poet