7th century BC
(8th century BC - 7th century BC - 6th century BC - other centuries)
(700s BC - 690s BC - 680s BC - 670s BC - 660s BC - 650s BC - 640s BC - 630s BC - 620s BC - 610s BC - 600s BC - other decades)
(2nd millennium BC - 1st millennium BC - 1st millennium AD)
Events:
- Scythians arrived in Asia
- Collapse of Susa, end of Elamite Empire
- Assyrians conquer Egypt (674 BC - 670 BC)
- Collapse of Nineveh, end of Assyria (612 BC)
- Japanese capital founded
- Zoroastrianism founded
- Hezekiah of the Kingdom of Judah (reigned 715 - 687 BC).
- Sennacherib, King of Assyria and conqueror of Babylon ( 705 - 681 BC).
- Gyges of Lydia (reigned 687 - 652 BC).
- Manasseh of Judah (reigned 687 - 643 BC).
- Esarhaddon, King of Assyria and conqueror of Egypt (reigned 681 - 669 BC).
- Archilochus of Thasos, poet (c. 680 - 645 BC).
- Josiah of the Kingdom of Judah (reigned 641-609 BC).
- Stesichorus of Sicily, lyric poet (c. 640-555 BC).
- Solon of Athens, one of the Seven Sages of Greece ( 638 - 558 BC).
- Thales of Miletus , Greek mathematician. ( 635 - 543 BC).
- Sappho of Lesbos, Ancient Greek poet.
- Zarathushtra, founding figure of Zoroastrianism.