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685 BCE

Ashurbanipal is born to King Esarhaddon and Queen Ashur-Hamat.
c. 669 BCE - c. 668 BCE

Issuance of the Loyal Treaty of Queen of Assyria Naqia-Zakutu, ensuring the succession of Ashurbanipal as king.
668 BCE

Ashurbanipal succeeds his father as King of the Assyrian Empire.
668 BCE - 627 BCE

Reign of Ashurbanipal, King of Assyria, last king of the Neo-Assyrian Empire.
667 BCE - 665 BCE

Ashurbanipal wages war in Egypt to put down rebellions.
653 BCE - c. 648 BCE

Babylon rebels, Siege of Babylon.
648 BCE

War between Assyria and the Elamites.
c. 647 BCE - c. 629 BCE

Extensive collection of clay tablets acquired known as Ashurbanipal's Library at Nineveh.
c. 647 BCE - c. 648 BCE

Fall of Babylon the Ashurbanipal.
c. 646 BCE

Destruction of the Elamite city of Susa by Ashurbanipal of the Neo-Assyrian Empire
627 BCE

Death of King Ashurbanipal.
612 BCE

Fall of the Assyrian Empire, Nineveh is burned.