609 BC
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Events
Politics and World Affairs
- King Josiah of Judah dies in the Battle of Megiddo against the Egyptians under Necho II
- The Babylonians conquer Harran, where the Assyrian king Ashur - uballit II falls: the end of the Assyrian Empire
Science and Technology
- In the Babylonian calendar the beginning of the first Nisannu falls on the 20th - 21st March; the full moon in Nisannu to the 2nd - 3rd April 1st Ululu on the 14th - 15th August and the first Tašritu on the 13th - 14th September.
- Babylonian astronomers record in the 17th year of the reign of the Babylonian king Nabopolassar ( 609-608 BC), their observation results of the lunar eclipse on 3rd - 4th September ( 14 Ululu ).
Comments
- Year ( 7th century BC)
- 609 BC