666 BC

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• Second year of the reign of the Babylonian king Šamaš - šuma - ukin ( 666-665 BC) Babylonian astronomers record the data of the local lunar eclipse on April 3.
• In the Babylonian calendar, the Babylonian New Year the first Nisannu fell on the 21st - 22nd March ( beginning of spring ); the full moon in Nisannu to the 3rd - 4th April and the first Tašritu on the 14th - 15th September.

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• Year ( 7th century BC)
• 666 BC