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• ca. 708 BC - SpartaThis page is about the ancient and modern Greek city of Sparta. For other uses see: Sparta (disambiguation Sparta was an ancient city in Greece, the capital of Laconia and the most powerful state of the Peloponnesus. The city lay at the northern end of thn immigrants founded TarantoTaranto is a city in southern Italy. It is the capital of Taranto province, and is also a port, and is located on the Gulf of Taranto, in Apulia region. It is about midway down the western coast of the peninsula that forms Italy's heel. According to the 2.
• 705 BC - 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 succeeds his brother Shalmaneser VShalmaneser V first appears as governor of Zimirra in Phoenicia in the reign of Tiglath-Pileser III and is supposed by H. Winckler to have been the son of the latter king. At all events, on the death of Tiglath-Pileser, he succeeded to the throne the 25th as king 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
• 704 BC - Sennacherib moves the capital of Assyira back to NinevehThis article is about the ancient Middle Eastern city of Nineveh. The name is also applied to a place in Indiana, USA: see Nineveh, Indiana. Nineveh (Assyrian city of "Ninua") was an important city in ancient Assyria, lying within the area of the modern c
• 701 BC - King HezekiahHezekiah (which means "whom God has strengthened") was king of Judah, the son of Ahaz ( 2 Kings 18:1; 2 Chronicles 29:1). He reigned twenty-nine years (2 Kings 18:2). Albright has dated his reign to 715 687 BC, while Thiele offers the dates 716 687 BC. of JudahThe Kingdom of Judah Malchut Yehudah in Hebrew), in the times of the Hebrew Bible, was the nation formed from the territories of the tribes of Judah, Simeon and Benjamin after the Kingdom of Israel was divided, and was named after Judah son of Jacob ( Isr, backed by Egypt, revolts against king Sennacherib of Assyria. Sennacherib sacks many Palestinian cities, but fails in his attempt to take Jerusalem

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