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Old Orient
- 12th year of reign of the Assyrian and Babylonian king Asarhaddon (669 to 668 BC): On October 26th ( 10th Araḫsamna ), Asarhaddon dies of an illness on the way to Egypt .
- October 27th : Assurbanipal succeeds Assarhaddon on the Assyrian throne.
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science and technology
- May 27th : A royal servant records a solar eclipse observed in the region around Babylon on a cuneiform tablet .
- 12th year of reign of the Babylonian king Asarhaddon:
- In the Babylonian calendar , the Babylonian New Year of Nisannu 1 fell on the 23rd – 24th. March; the full moon in Nisannu on the 5th – 6th April, the 1st Tašritu on the 17th - 18th September and the 1st Araḫsamna on the 16. – 17. October.
- Assyrian note: Last visibility of Venus on December 20th (setting: 5:31 p.m., sunset : 5:04 p.m.).
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f 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.