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• 699 BC - Khallushu succeeds Shuttir-Nakhkhunte as king of the Elamite EmpireThe ancient Elamite Empire lay to the east of Sumer and Akkad, in what is now southwestern Iran. The Elamites called their country haltamtu or hallatamti which was translated as Elam by the neighboring Akkadians. The high country of Elam was later more an
• 697 BC - Death of Zhou huan wang, King of the Zhou Dynasty of ChinaThis article is on the geographic and cultural entity. For other meanings, see China (disambiguation). China ( Traditional Chinese: , Simplified Chinese: , Hanyu Pinyin: Zhongguo, Wade-Giles: Chung-kuo) is a country in continental East Asia with some oute.
• 696 BC - Zhou zhuang wang becomes King of the Zhou Dynasty of ChinaThis article is on the geographic and cultural entity. For other meanings, see China (disambiguation). China ( Traditional Chinese: , Simplified Chinese: , Hanyu Pinyin: Zhongguo, Wade-Giles: Chung-kuo) is a country in continental East Asia with some oute.
• 691 BC - King Sennacheribchariot Sennacherib (In akkadian Sin-ehhe-erib " Sin (the moon god) has taken the place of brothers to me") was the king of the Assyrian Empire ( 705 681 BC). His reign was tested several times by revolts each of which was brought down. Then in 701 BC an of AssyriaThis article concerns the ancient Mesopotamian kingdom. For the modern-day peoples in northern Iraq and neighboring areas, see Assyrian. Assyria a country named after its original capital city, Asshur on the Tigris, was originally a colony of Babylonia, a defeats king Humban-nimena of Elam in the Battle of Halule .
• 690 BC - Taharqa, a king of the Twenty-fifth Dynasty, ascends the throne of Egypt (approximate date)

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