650s BC

650s BC

Events and trends

*Occupation begins at Maya site of Piedras Negras, Guatemala.
*657 BCCypselus becomes the first tyrant of Corinth.
*656 BCPsammetichus extends his control over all of Egypt. End of Twenty-fifth Dynasty.
*653 BCAtta-Khumma-In-Shushinak and Khumbanigash II succeed Shilhak-In-Shushinak and Tempti-Khumma-In-Shushinak as kings of the Elamite Empire.
*652 BCBabylonia rises in revolt under Shamash-shuma-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 BCZhou xiang wang becomes King of the Zhou Dynasty of China.
*650 BC — The Messenians, resentful of the spartans' harsh rule, revolted. Beginning of the Second Messenian War.
*650 BCAristomenes traditional Messenian hero wins the battle at Stenyclerus against the Spartans but is eventually defeated.
*650 BC — The town of Abdera in Thrace is founded by colonists from Clazomenae.
*650 BC — A climate change affects all the Bronze Age cultures in Europe with colder and wetter climate, and tribes from the Scandinavian Nordic Bronze Age cultures are pushed downwards into the European continent.
*650 BC–625 BC — Wine pitcher (oinochoe), from Rhodes, is made. It is now at Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

ignificant people

* 653 BC — Death of Tantamani, last king of the Twenty-fifth dynasty of Egypt
* 652 BC — Death of Gyges, king of Lydia
* 652 BC — Death of Zhou hui wang, king of the Zhou Dynasty of China
* 652 BC — First recorded mention of King Kuras of Parsumas, possibly the same as King Cyrus I of Anshan, head of the Achaemenid dynasty


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