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| 609 BC In other calendars | |
| Chinese calendar | 34th (35th) cycle , year of the water rat壬子 ( at the beginning of the year metal pig 辛亥) |
| Greek calendar | 3rd / 4th Year of the 42nd Olympiad |
| Jewish calendar | 3152/53 |
| Roman calendar | from urbe condita CCV (145) |
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Attic vase painting in Greece:
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| Hallstatt Period in Europe (since 650 BC) | |
| 26th Dynasty (time of the Egyptian Restoration) during the late period in Egypt (since 664 BC) | |
| Eastern Zhou dynasty / period of spring and autumn annals in China (since 770/722 BC) | |
| Ancient Greece : Archaic (since approx. 750 BC) | |
| Dong-Son culture in northern Vietnam and southern China (since around 800 BC) | |
| Middle Preclassic period among the Maya (since approx. 900 BC) | |
| Antiquity in the Mediterranean region (since approx. 1200/800 BC) | |
| La Venta period among the Olmecs in Mesoamerica (since approx. 1500 BC) | |
Events
Politics and world events
- June: King Josiah of Judah dies in the battle of Megiddo against the Egyptians under Necho II.
- The Babylonians conquer Harran , with the defeat of the last Assyrian king Aššur-uballiṭ II. The Assyrian Empire ends.
science and technology
- In the Babylonian calendar , the beginning of the first year of Nisannu falls on the 20th – 21st. March; the full moon in Nisannu on the 2nd – 3rd April, the 1st Ululu on the 14th-15th August and the 1st Tašritu on the 13th-14th September.
- In the 17th year of the reign of the Babylonian king Nabopolassar (609 to 608 BC), Babylonian astronomers record the results of their observation of the lunar eclipse of the 3rd to 4th centuries. September (14th Ululu).
Individual evidence
- ↑ 2 Kings 23.29 SLT
- ↑ a b c d Date 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 .
- ^ A b 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.