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Was the last polity ruled by monarchs native to Mesopotamia in Babylon. It begun with the coronation of Nabopolassar as the King of Babylon in 626 BC. The Neo-Babylonian Empire was conquered by the Achaemenid Persian Empire in 539 BC.
Establishment
January 625 BC: In 626 BC, Babylonian ruler Nabopolassar assaulted and successfully seized the cities of Babylon and Nippur.
Chronology
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Was the revolt of general Nabopolassar against the Neo-Assyrian Empire that led to the secession of Babylon from the empire.
Military campaign of Median king Cyaxares.
2.1.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.
Military campaigns of Ancient Egyptian Pharaoh Psamtik II.
4.1.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.
Was a revolt of the Kingdom of Judah against the Neo-Babylonian Empire.
January 585 BC: Judah ceased to exist in 586 BC as it was annexed to the Neo-Babylonian Empire.
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.
6.1.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 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: On October 12 (proleptic Gregorian calendar), Gubaru's troops entered Babylon, again without any resistance from the Babylonian armies, and detained Nabonidus.
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Neo-Babylonian Empire
