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Events
Politics and world events
- The Babylonian King Nabopolassar marches with an army against the collapsing Assyrian Empire .
science and technology
- 10th year of reign of the Babylonian king Nabopolassar (616 to 615 BC): In the Babylonian calendar , the beginning of the first year of Nisannu falls on the 7th – 8th. March; the full moon in Nisannu on 21. – 22. March ( beginning of spring ) and the 1st Tašritu on the 1st – 2nd October.
- 10th year of reign of the Babylonian king Nabopolassar: The leap month Ululu II begins on September 1st.
Individual evidence
- ↑ 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 .
- ^ 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.