669 BC
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Ancient Near East
Greece
- Battle of Hysiai between Sparta and Argos.
Science and Technology
- May 27: A royal servant holds on a cuneiform tablet fixed an observed in the region around Babylon eclipse.
- 12th year of the reign of the Babylonian king Esarhaddon: In the Babylonian calendar, the Babylonian New Year the first Nisannu fell on the 23 -24. March; the full moon in Nisannu on the 5th - 6th April 1st Tašritu on the 17th - 18th September and the first Araḫsamna on the 16th - 17th October.
- Assyrian note: Last visibility of Venus on 20 December ( Moonset: 17:31 clock, Sunset: 17:04 clock ).
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- Year ( 7th century BC)
- 669 BC