680s BC

Millennium:	1st millennium BC
Centuries:	8th century BC – 7th century BC – 6th century BC
Decades:	710s BC 700s BC 690s BC – 680s BC – 670s BC 660s BC 650s BC
Years:	689 BC 688 BC 687 BC 686 BC 685 BC 684 BC 683 BC 682 BC 681 BC 680 BC
680s BC-related categories:	Deaths

Events and trends

• 689 BC—King Sennacherib of Assyria sacks Babylon.
• 687 BC—Gyges becomes king of Lydia.
• 685 BC- Chalcedon became a Greek colony.
• 682 BC—Death of Zhou zhuang wang, King of the Zhou Dynasty of China.
• 681 BC—Esarhaddon succeeds Sennacherib as king of Assyria.
• c. 680 BC—A meteor disaster on the Estonian island of Saaremaa, forming the Kaali crater.

Significant people

• ca. 680 BC—The Greek poet Archilochos is born on the island of Paros.