620 BC
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Events
Politics and World Affairs
- Around 620 BC: The Nubian king Senkamanisken rules over the kingdom of Kush.
Science and Technology
- 6th year of the reign of the Babylonian king Nabopolassar ( 620-619 BC): In the Babylonian calendar the beginning of the first Nisannu falls on the 22 - 23rd March; the full moon in Nisannu on the 4th - 5th April and the first Tašritu on the 15th - 16th September.
Culture
- Around 620 BC: The Nessus painters in Athens begins to develop his own style as the first Attic vase painter in the acquired Corinthian black-figure vase painting.