Year by year · 7th century BCE
612 BCE
612 BCE in world history: 4 events. 257 recorded states existed that year.
Events
Siege
Fall of Nineveh
The fall of Nineveh was the destruction of the Assyrian capital in 612 BCE by a coalition of Medes and Babylonians.
In the profiles
Assyrian EmpireBabylonians and Medes destroy the Assyrian capital Nineveh
Chaldean EmpireBabylonians and Medes sack Nineveh, the Assyrian capital
Median EmpireCyaxares and Nabopolassar of Babylon destroy Nineveh
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