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Events
politics
- End of the seventeen years of the 2nd Messenian War by taking the Messenian mountain fortress of Eira.
science and technology
- Year of accession of the Babylonian king Šamaš-šuma-ukin (668 to 667 BC): Babylonian astronomers calculate the dates of the lunar eclipse there on April 25th .
- Year of accession of the Babylonian king Šamaš-šuma-ukin: In the Babylonian calendar , the Babylonian New Year of the 1st Nisannu fell on the 13th-14th centuries. March; the full moon in Nisannu on the 26.-27. March and the 1st Tašritu on the 6-7 . October.
- The year of the accession of the Babylonian king Šamaš-šuma-ukin and the first year of reign of the Assyrian king Aššur-bāni-apli : The leap month Ululu II , beginning on September 7, is proclaimed.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e 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.