Years 650 a. c.

The years 650 BC passed between the years 659 B.C. C. and 650 a. c.

Events

• The occupation of the Mayan site of Piedras Negras (Guatemala) begins.
• 657 a. C. — Copy it becomes Corinth's first tyrant.
• 656 a. C. — Psamético I extends its control over all Egypt. End of the XXV Dynasty.
• 654 B.C. — on the island of Ibiza, the Phoenicians founded the Yboshim colony.
• 653 B.C. — Atta-Khumma-In-Shushinak and Khumbanigash II happen to Shilhak-In-Shushinak and Tempti-Khumma-In-Shushinak as kings of the Elamite Empire.
• 652 a. C. — Babylon rises in revolt under Shamash-shum-ukin against the Assyrians.
• 652 a. C. — Guan Zhong urges the Duke of Qi to keep up with the other states by rejecting the offer of the son of a recently deceased state governor to ally with Qi if Qi would help him to depose his father.
• 651 a. C. — Zhou xiang wang becomes king of China's Zhou dynasty.
• 650 B.C. - On the coast of Thrace, Greek settlers of Clazomene founded the colony of Abdera, according to the information supplied by Herodote.
• 650 BC: Assyria expansion.
• 650 B.C. — The Mesenians, resented against the brutal government of the Spartans, are returned. Beginning of the Second Messenia War.
• 650 B.C. — Traditional Messenio Hero Aristomens, overcomes in Steníclero's battle against Spartans but over time is defeated.
• 650 BC — Climate change affects all cultures of the Bronze Age in Europe with a colder and humid climate, and tribes of the Scandinavian Nordic Bronze Age are pushed to the European continent.
• 650 BC - On the Iberian peninsula, protoceltic. Soto de Medinilla. The culture of Tartessos.
• 650 a. C.–625 a. C. — The wine pichel (enocoe) is made from Rhodes, currently at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.

Important characters

• 653 a. C. — Death of Tantamani, the last king of the XXV Dynasty of Egypt
• 652 a. C. — Death of Giges, King of Lidia
• 652 a. C. — Death of Zhou hui wang, king of China’s Zhou dynasty
• 652 a. C. — First documented mention of King Kuras of Parsumas, possibly the same as King Cyrus I of Anshan, head of the aquemide dynasty