624 BC Chr.

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Events

Politics and world events

• Drakon becomes Archon in Athens and reforms the criminal law there in the following years.

science and technology

• 2nd year of reign of the Babylonian king Nabopolassar (624 to 623 BC): In the Babylonian calendar , the beginning of the first year of Nisannu falls  on the 5th – 6th. April; the full moon in Nisannu on 19. – 20. April and the 1st  Tašritu on the 29-30 . September.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} 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 .
2. ^ 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.