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First Babylonian Empire
Kassite dynasty of the Babylonian Empire
Babylon
Neo-Babylonian Empire
Establishment
January 1893 BC: The First Babylonian Empire, or Old Babylonian Empire, emerged c. 1894 BC - c. 1595 BC.
Chronology
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Military campaigns of Sin-Muballit, King of Babylon.
January 1791 BC: By the end of the reign of Babylonian King Sin-Muballit, he had conquered Dilbat, Sippar, Kish, and Borsippa.
Military campaigns of Babylonian King Hammurabi.
January 1763 BC: Kurda became a vassal of Babylon
January 1762 BC: Babylonia King Hammurabi gained control of the entirety of the lower Mesopotamian plain by c. 1763 BC.
January 1759 BC: The Babylonian armies conquered the states of northern Mesopotamia..
2.1.Hammurabi's Conquest on Larsa
Military campaign of Babylonian King Hammurabi against Larsa.
January 1762 BC: The forces of Babylonian King Hammurabi conquered Larsa after a six-month siege.
2.2.Elamite attack on Babylon
The Kingdom of Elam invaded the Kingdom of Babylon.
February 1762 BC: In order to consolidate its position, Elam tried to start a war between Hammurabi's Babylonian Kingdom and the Kingdom of Larsa.
February 1762 BC: In order to consolidate its position, Elam tried to start a war between Hammurabi's Babylonian kingdom and the kingdom of Larsa.
March 1762 BC: Hammurabi and the King of Larsa made an alliance and were able to crush the Elamites.
2.3.Hammurabi's invasion of Elam
After defeating the invading Elamites, Babylon invaded Elam.
January 1761 BC: In 1763/1762 BC, Hammurabi invaded and annexed the city of Eshnunna.
2.4.Hammurabi's Conquests in the North
Military campaign of Babylonian King Hammurabi in northern Mesopotamia.
January 1759 BC: The Babylonian armies conquered the remaining northern states of Mesopotamia, including Babylon's former ally Mari.
Military campaigns of Assyrian king Shamshi-Adad I.
January 1740 BC: Assyrian conquest of Mari.
January 1726 BC: The Assyrian Empire re-emerged around 1727 BC.
January 1720 BC: Expansion of the Assyran Empire by c. 1721 BC.
Military campaigns of Hittite King Hattusili I.
January 1650 BC: Labarna founded the Hittite Kingdom ca. 1650 BC. He renamed himself Hattusili I (meaning "the man of Hattusa") and established his capital city at Hattusa.
Military campaigns of Hittite King Mursili I.
January 1595 BC: Hittite King Mursili Ied an unprecedented march of 2,000 km south into the heart of Mesopotamia, where in 1595 BC he sacked the city of Babylon.
February 1595 BC: Hittite King Mursili Ied an unprecedented march of 2,000 km south into the heart of Mesopotamia, where in 1595 BC he sacked the city of Babylon.
Military campaigns of Ancient Egyptian Pharaoh Ahmose I.
6.1.Punitive Expedition in Canaan
Military campaign of Ancient Egyptian Pharaoh Ahmose I in Canaan.
January 1526 BC: Ahmose I began a military expedition in Syria and Nubia during his 22nd year of reign. He reached Djahy in the Levant and perhaps as far as the Euphrates. Ahmose did reach at least as far as Kedem (thought to be near Byblos), according to an ostracon in the tomb of his wife, Ahmose-Nefertari.
February 1526 BC: Ahmose I started a military expedition in Syria and Nubia during his 22nd year of reign. At the end of the expedition the Pharaoh left most of the territories.
Military campaignss of Assyrian king Eriba-Adad I
January 1391 BC: Eriba-Adad I broke Mitanni influence over Assyria.
Assyrian King Tukulti-Ninurta I conquered Babylon but the occupation was short-lived.
8.1.Assyrian conquest of Babylonia
Military Campaign of Assyrian King Tukulti-Ninurta I against Babylon.
January 1224 BC: Tukulti-Ninurta I again defeated Kashtiliash IV, the Kassite king of Babylon, capturing his kingdom.
8.2.Independance of Babylon
The Kingdom of Babylon rebelled against Assyria and Babylon became independent again with King Meli-Shipak II.
January 1206 BC: Ashurnasirpal rebelled against his father, king Tukulti-Ninurta I, who was eventually assassinated. Thic caused a new period of decline for the Assyrian Empire: Babylon became independent again.
Nebuchadnezzar I, King of Babylon, conquered Elam.
January 1103 BC: Victory of the Babylonian ruler Nebuchadnezzar I over Elam.
Conquest of Elam, in western Persia, by the Neo-Assyrian Empire.
January 910 BC: Elam conquered by Assyrian Empire.
Military Campaigns of Assyrian King Adad-nirari II.
January 890 BC: Adad-nirari II twice attacked and defeated Shamash-mudammiq of Babylonia, annexing a large area of land north of the Diyala river and the towns of Hit and Zanqu in mid Mesopotamia.
Military campaigns of Assyrian king Shalmaneser III.
January 823 BC: Babylon was occupied, and Babylonia reduced to vassalage by the Assyrian Empire.
Was the revolt of general Nabopolassar against the Neo-Assyrian Empire that led to the secession of Babylon from the empire.
January 625 BC: In 626 BC, Babylonian ruler Nabopolassar assaulted and successfully seized the cities of Babylon and Nippur.
Military campaign of Median king Cyaxares.
14.1.Medo-Babylonian conquest of the Assyrian Empire
Was a war fought between Media and Babylon against the Neo-Assyrian Empire that led to the fall of the latter.
January 622 BC: Nabopolassar was the king of the Neo-Babylonian Empire, and Der was a city located in Mesopotamia. The joining of Der to Nabopolassar's rule was part of his efforts to expand his empire and strengthen his control over the region.
January 619 BC: Both Uruk and Nippur, the cities who had shifted the most between Assyrian and Babylonian control were firmly in Babylonian hands by 620 BC and Nabopolassar had consolidated his rule over all of Babylonia.
January 611 BC: The combined Medo-Babylonian army marched on Nineveh. From June to August of that year, they besieged the Assyrian capital and in August the walls were breached, leading to another lengthy and brutal sack during which Sinsharishkun is assumed to have died.
January 608 BC: Fall of Harran to the Neo-Babylonian Empire.
Egypt was a regional power in the Levant until its defeat in the Battle of Charchameshin against Babylonia and Media in 606 BC.
January 604 BC: Egypt was the regional power until Battle of Charchameshin 606BC. Later, Babylonia came and ended the Egyptian rule, and established its own rule in the levant.
Was a revolt of the Kingdom of Judah against the Neo-Babylonian Empire.
January 596 BC: Following the siege of 597 BC, the Neo-Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar installed Zedekiah as vassal king of Judah.
January 586 BC: In July 587 BC, Zedekiah rebelled against Babylonia.
January 586 BC: The Babylonian troops managed to get inside the walls and conquer the city. On the seventh of Av, Nebuzaradan, a Babylonian executioner, burned down Solomon's Temple, destroyed the walls of Jerusalem, and exiled the rest of the Jews to Babylonia. He appointed Gedalia as the administrator of the Jews that weren't exiled from Judah.
January 585 BC: Judah ceased to exist in 586 BC as it was annexed to the Neo-Babylonian Empire.
Military campaigns of Ancient Egyptian Pharaoh Psamtik II.
17.1.Incursion in Palestine by Psamtik II
Was a military campaign of Ancient Egyptian Pharaoh Psamtik II in Palestine.
January 590 BC: In 591 BC, during the fourth year of his reign, Psamtik II launched an expedition into Palestine "to foment a general Levantine revolt against the Babylonians" that involved, among others, Zedekiah of the Kingdom of Judah.
February 590 BC: In 591 BC, during the fourth year of his reign, Psamtik II launched an expedition into Palestine "to foment a general Levantine revolt against the Babylonians" that involved, among others, Zedekiah of the Kingdom of Judah.
Were a series of expansionistic military campaigns by the first Achaemenid ruler Cyrus the Great.
January 549 BC: By the mid-6th century BC, Caucasian Albania was incorporated in the Achaemenid empire.
October 539 BC: Cyrus the Great, king and founder of the Persian Achaemenid Empire, took Babylon.
18.1.Cyrus' Conquest of Babylonia
Was a military campaign of the Achaemenid ruler Cyrus the Great that resulted in the conquest of the Neo-Babylonian Empire.
October 539 BC: The Battle of Opis took place in -539 between Cyrus the Great of the Achaemenid Empire and the Babylonian army. The decisive victory for Cyrus led to the fall of Babylon and the incorporation of the territory into the Achaemenid Empire.
October 539 BC: Sippar was seized by the Achaemenids without a battle.
October 539 BC: On October 12 (proleptic Gregorian calendar), Gubaru's troops entered Babylon, again without any resistance from the Babylonian armies, and detained Nabonidus.
January 1880 BC: The first known king of the First Babylonian Empire, Sumuabum, expanded the Babylonian territory by conquering Dilbat and Kish.
January 1751 BC: Territorial acquisitions of Yamhad until 1752 BC.
January 1735 BC: The three Amorite kings succeeding Ishme-Dagan I of Assyria were vassals and dependent on the Babylonians during the reign of Hammurabi.
January 1727 BC: Apum came to an end after the invasion of the Babylonian king Samsu-Iluna in 1728 BC.
January 1680 BC: The successors of Assyrian King Shamshi-Adad I eventually lost most of his domain. Assyria was reduced to the cities of Assur and Ekallatum.
January 1599 BC: Beth-Nahrin was an Aramaic kingdom established in the Harran region around 1600 BC.
January 1594 BC: The Kassites were people of the ancient Near East, who controlled Babylonia after the fall of the Old Babylonian Empire c. 1595 BC.
January 1499 BC: After 1500 BC Dilumn fell under the rule of the Kassite Dynasty of Babylon.
January 1499 BC: Washukanni and surrounding regions conquered by Mitanni.
January 1399 BC: Expansion of Mitanni until 1400 BC.
January 1319 BC: The Kassite king of Babylon Kurigalzu II temporarily occupied Elam around 1320 BC.
February 1319 BC: The Kassite king of Babylon Kurigalzu left Elam after a short military occupation.
January 1234 BC: Assyrian king Tukulti-Ninurta I invaded Babylon, deposed its king Kashtiliash IV, and annexed the kingdom, ruling there for eight years from 1235 BC to 1227 BC.
January 1226 BC: The Assyrian occupation of Babylon ended after eight years ca. 1227 BC.
January 1154 BC: The Elamites sacked Babylon in the 12th century BC, ending the Kassite dynasty. However the state of Babylon continued to exist.
January 999 BC: Shuhi was an Aramaic state on the Euphrates whose capital was the city of Anat or Hanat. The state should be established before 1000 BC.
January 608 BC: Byblos, a vassal of Assyria, came under the control of the Neo-Babylonian Empire after the Babylonians rebelled against the collapsing Assyrian Empire.
January 608 BC: The Babylonians, led by King Nabopolassar, rebelled against the collapsing Assyrian Empire and established the Neo-Babylonian Empire. The city of Tyros, previously a vassal of Assyria, came under the control of the Neo-Babylonians during this period.
January 603 BC: In 604 BC the Philistine Confederation, after having already been subjugated for centuries by Assyria, was finally destroyed by King Nebuchadnezzar II of Babylonia.
May 585 BC: The war between the Lydians and the Medes was ended in -585 when a solar eclipse, predicted by Thales of Miletus, occurred on May 28. The event was so terrifying to both sides that they quickly made peace up to the border with Lydia, with the territory going to the Median Empire.
January 555 BC: Labashi-Marduk left the capital and travelled to campaign in the Levant and also conquered the desert oasis city of Tayma in the north Arabia early in his reign.
Disestablishment
October 539 BC: The Battle of Opis took place in -539 between Cyrus the Great of the Achaemenid Empire and the Babylonian army. The decisive victory for Cyrus led to the fall of Babylon and the incorporation of the territory into the Achaemenid Empire.
October 539 BC: Sippar was seized by the Achaemenids without a battle.
October 539 BC: Cyrus the Great, king and founder of the Persian Achaemenid Empire, took Babylon.
October 539 BC: On October 12 (proleptic Gregorian calendar), Gubaru's troops entered Babylon, again without any resistance from the Babylonian armies, and detained Nabonidus.
Selected Sources
Broad, William J. "It Swallowed a Civilization. " New York Times, D1. 21 October 2003.
Bryce, Trevor (2016). Babylonia: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford University Press. pp. 8–10
Cline, Eric H. (2021). "Of Arms and the Man". 1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed. Princeton University Press. p. 32
Near East 1400 BCE. Wikipedia. Retrieved on 1 April 2024 on https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Near_East_1400_BCE.png
Weinstein, J. M. (1981): The Egyptian Empire in Palestine: A Reassessment, Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research nr. 241, p.7
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