733 BC Chr.

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Events

politics

• 14th year of reign of the Babylonian king Nabû-naṣir (734 to 733 BC): Nabu-nasir dies in January or February of an illness. It is last mentioned in a document dated December 29th (17th  Tebetu ) of the year 734 BC. Occupied.
• Year of accession (up to 1st  Nisannu ) of his son and successor Nabû-nādin-zēri .
• Syrian-Ephraimite War

science and technology

• 1st year of reign of the Babylonian king Nabu-nadin-zeri (733–732 BC):
  • In the Babylonian calendar , the Babylonian New Year of Nisannu 1  falls on the 11th – 12th. March; the full moon in Nisannu on the 23.-24. March and the 1st  Tašritu on the 3rd to 4th October.
  • Declaration of the leap month Ululu II , which begins on September 3rd .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Date specification in the Gregorian calendar : in the Julian calendar system , 8 days are to be added to the Gregorian date. The date is based on the NASA information ( Memento from November 21, 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.