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This article concerns the period '''659 BC – 650 BC'''.
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==Events and trends==
*Occupation begins at [[Maya civilization|Maya]] site of [[Piedras Negras, Guatemala]].
*First evidence of written [[Olmec]] language from the [[New World]].  Pyramid building continues.
*657 BC—[[Cypselus]] becomes the first [[tyrant]] of [[Ancient Corinth|Corinth]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Percy |first=William A. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TCvoj1efp8UC |title=Pederasty and Pedagogy in Archaic Greece |date=1996 |publisher=University of Illinois Press |isbn=978-0-252-06740-2 |page=129 |language=en}}</ref>
*657 BC—The [[Li Ji Unrest]] is a series of events from 657BC to 651BC that takes place during the Spring and Autumn period, caused by Li Ji, the concubine of Duke Xian of Jin, in order to put his son Xiqi onto the throne of Jin.
*656 BC—[[Psamtik I]] extends his control over all of [[History of ancient Egypt|Egypt]]. End of [[Twenty-fifth Dynasty of Egypt|Twenty-fifth Dynasty]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Scott |first=Graham P. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8EyqEAAAQBAJ |title=Seeds of Western Culture: Low Chronology, Abraham's Exodus and Archilochus' Odyssey |date=24 January 2023 |publisher=Graham P Scott |isbn=978-0-646-86379-5 |page=121 |language=en}}</ref>
*653 BC—[[Atta-Khumma-In-Shushinak]] and [[Khumbanigash II]] succeed [[Shilhak-In-Shushinak]] and [[Tempti-Khumma-In-Shushinak]] as kings of the [[Elamite Empire]].
*652 BC—[[Babylonia]] rises in revolt under [[Shamash-shum-ukin]] against the [[Assyria]]ns.
*652 BC—[[Guan Zhong]] urges the Duke of [[Qi]] to maintain the respect of the other states by refusing the offer of the son of a recently defeated state's ruler to ally himself with Qi if Qi would help him depose his father.
*651 BC—[[King Xiang of Zhou]] becomes king of the [[Zhou dynasty]] of China.
*[[650 BC]]—The town of [[Abdera, Thrace|Abdera]] in [[Thrace]] is founded by colonists from [[Clazomenae]].<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Adak |first1=Mustafa |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jN5eEAAAQBAJ |title=Teos and Abdera: Two Cities in Peace and War |last2=Thonemann |first2=Peter |date=2022 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-284542-9 |page=82 |language=en}}</ref>
* First evidence of [[writing]] in the New World, among the Olmec Winters, C.A. (1984a). Blacks in ancient America. ColorLines, 3(2), 27–28.
*650 BC—A [[climate change (general concept)|climate change]] affects all the [[Bronze Age]] cultures in [[Europe]] with colder and wetter climate, and tribes from the [[Scandinavia]]n [[Nordic Bronze Age]] cultures are pushed downwards into the [[European continent]].
*650 BC–[[625 BC]]—Wine pitcher ([[oinochoe]]), from [[Rhodes]], is made. It is now at [[Museum of Fine Arts, Boston|Museum of Fine Arts]], [[Boston]].

==Significant people==
* [[653 BC]]—Death of [[Tantamani]], last king of the [[Twenty-fifth Dynasty of Egypt]]
* [[652 BC]]—Death of [[Zhou Hui Wang]], king of the [[Zhou dynasty]] of [[China]].{{cn|date=September 2023}}
* 652 BC—First recorded mention of King [[Kuras of Parsumas]], possibly the same as King [[Cyrus I of Anshan]], head of the [[Achaemenid dynasty]]

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