- 650s BC
Events and trends
*Occupation begins at Maya site of
Piedras Negras, Guatemala .
*657 BC —Cypselus becomes the firsttyrant ofCorinth .
*656 BC —Psammetichus extends his control over all of Egypt. End of Twenty-fifth Dynasty.
*653 BC —Atta-Khumma-In-Shushinak andKhumbanigash II succeedShilhak-In-Shushinak andTempti-Khumma-In-Shushinak as kings of theElamite Empire .
*652 BC —Babylonia rises in revolt underShamash-shuma-ukin against theAssyria ns.
*652 BC —Guan Zhong urges the Duke ofQi to maintain the respect of the other states by refusing the offer of the son of a recently defeated state's ruler to ally himself with Qi if Qi would help him depose his father.
*651 BC —Zhou xiang wang becomes King of theZhou Dynasty ofChina .
*650 BC — The Messenians, resentful of the spartans' harsh rule, revolted. Beginning of theSecond Messenian War .
*650 BC —Aristomenes traditional Messenian hero wins the battle atStenyclerus against the Spartans but is eventually defeated.
*650 BC — The town of Abdera inThrace is founded by colonists fromClazomenae .
*650 BC — Aclimate change affects all theBronze Age cultures inEurope with colder and wetter climate, and tribes from the ScandinavianNordic Bronze Age cultures are pushed downwards into theEuropean continent .
*650 BC–625 BC — Wine pitcher (oinochoe ), fromRhodes , is made. It is now atMuseum of Fine Arts ,Boston .ignificant people
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653 BC — Death ofTantamani , last king of theTwenty-fifth dynasty of Egypt
*652 BC — Death of Gyges, king ofLydia
*652 BC — Death ofZhou hui wang , king of theZhou Dynasty ofChina
* 652 BC — First recorded mention of KingKuras of Parsumas , possibly the same as KingCyrus I of Anshan , head of theAchaemenid dynasty
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