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Events
politics
- 20th year of reign of the Babylonian king Šamaš-šuma-ukin (648 to 647 BC): On July 12 (14th Du'uzu ), Babylon was conquered by his brother and Assyrian king Aššur-bāni-apli . Šamaš-šuma-ukin is killed during the attack.
science and technology
- 20th year of reign of the Babylonian king Šamaš-šuma-ukin: In the Babylonian calendar , the Babylonian New Year of the 1st Nisannu fell on March 31st – 1st. April; the full moon in Nisannu on the 13th-14th April and the 1st Tašritu on the 24th-25th September.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Date information in the Gregorian calendar : in the Julian calendar system , 7 days are to be added to the Gregorian date. The date is based on NASA information ( Memento from November 8, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) taking into account the T-Delta. For Babylonia, the time zone surcharge of 3 hours must be taken into account for Universal Time (UT); according to Jean Meeus : Astronomical Algorithms - Applications for Ephemeris Tool 4,5 - , Barth, Leipzig 2000 for: Ephemeris Tool 4,5 according to Jean Meeus, conversion program, 2001 .
- ^ Hermann Hunger: Lunar and Planetary Texts (Astronomical Diaries and related Texts from Babylonia, Vol. 5) . Publishing house of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 2001, ISBN 3-7001-3028-7 , p. 395.