650s BC

Events and trends

  • Occupation begins at Maya site of Piedras Negras, Guatemala.
  • First evidence of written Olmec language from new world. Pyramid building continues.
  • 657 BC—Cypselus becomes the first tyrant of Corinth.
  • 657 BC—The Li Ji Unrest is a series of events from 657BC to 651BC that takes place during the Spring and Autumn Period, caused by Li Ji, the concubine of Duke Xian of Jin, in order to put his son Xiqi onto the throne of Jin.
  • 656 BC—Psamtik I extends his control over all of Egypt. End of Twenty-fifth Dynasty.
  • 653 BC—Atta-Khumma-In-Shushinak and Khumbanigash II succeed Shilhak-In-Shushinak and Tempti-Khumma-In-Shushinak as kings of the Elamite Empire.
  • 652 BC—Babylonia rises in revolt under Shamash-shum-ukin against the Assyrians.
  • 652 BC—Guan Zhong urges the Duke of Qi to maintain the respect of the other states by refusing the offer of the son of a recently defeated state's ruler to ally himself with Qi if Qi would help him depose his father.
  • 651 BC—Zhou xiang wang becomes King of the Zhou Dynasty of China.
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