650s BC
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Centuries: 8th century BC - 7th century BC - 6th century BC
Decades: 700s BC 690s BC 680s BC 670s BC 660s BC - 650s BC - 640s BC 630s BC 620s BC 610s BC 600s BC
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Events and trends
- Occupation begins at Maya site of Piedras Negras, Guatemala
- 657 BC - Cypselus becomes the first tyrant of Corinth.
- 656 BC - Psammetichus extends his control over all of Egypt. End of Twenty-fifth Dynasty
- 653 BC Atta-Khumma-In-Shushinak and Khumbanigash II succeed Shilhak-In-Shushinak and Tempti-Khumma-In-Shushinak as kings of the Elamite Empire
- 652 BC - Babylonia rises in revolt under Shamash-shuma-ukin against the Assyrians
- 651 BC - Zhou xiang wang becomes King of the Zhou Dynasty of China.
- 650 BC - The town of Abdera in Thrace is founded by colonists from Clazomenae.
- 650 BC - a climate change affects all the Bronze Age cultures in Europe with colder and wetter climate, and tribes from the Scandinavian Nordic Bronze Age cultures are pushed downwards into the European continent.
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Significant people
- 653 BC - Death of Tantamani, last king of the Twenty-fifth dynasty of Egypt
- 652 BC - Death of Gyges, king of Lydia
- 652 BC - Death of Zhou hui wang, King of the Zhou Dynasty of China.
- 652 BC - First recorded mention of King "Kuras of Parsumas". He is possibly the same as King Cyrus I of Anshan, head of the Achaemenid dynasty.es:Años 650 adC
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