672 BC Chr.

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Events

politics

• 8th year of reign of the Assyrian king Asarhaddon : death of his wife on 3rd / 4th March (5th / 6th Addaru ).
• 9th year of reign of the Assyrian King Asarhaddon: On May 8th (12th  Ajaru ) Aššur-bāni-apli was appointed "Crown Prince of Assyria"; either at the same time or a short time later, appointment of Šamaš-šuma-ukin as "Crown Prince of Babylonia ".

science and technology

• 9th year of reign of the Assyrian King Azarhaddon (672–671 BC):
  • In the Babylonian calendar , the Babylonian New Year of 1st  Nisannu fell on the 27th – 28th. March, the full moon in Nisannu on the 8th – 9th April and the 1st  Tašritu on the 20th – 21st September.

Remarks

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Date specification 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) (see also the visibility periods ); 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 .