640 BC

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Events

• Cylon of Athens is Olympic champion in diaulos.

Born

• Around 640 BC: Solon, Athenian statesman and poet, one of the seven wise men of Greece († 560 BC )

Died

• Tullus Hostilius, legendary third king of Rome (c. 710 BC)

• Year ( 7th century BC)
• 640 BC