Millennia:	1st millennium BC
Centuries:	8th century BC - 7th century BC - 6th century BC
Decades:	710s BC 700s BC 690s BC - 680s BC - 670s BC 660s BC 650s BC
Years:	689 BC 688 BC 687 BC 686 BC 685 BC 684 BC 683 BC 682 BC 681 BC 680 BC
Categories:	Births - Deaths - State leaders - Sovereign states Establishments - Disestablishments

Events and trends

• 689 BC — King Sennacherib of Assyria sacks Babylon.
• 687 BC — Gyges becomes king of Lydia.
• 687 BC — Hezekiah succeeded by Manasseh as king of Judah.
• 682 BC — Death of Zhou zhuang wang, King of the Zhou Dynasty of China.
• 681 BC — Esarhaddon succeeds Sennacherib as king of Assyria.
• c. 680 BC — A meteor disaster on the Estonian island of Saaremaa, forming the Kaali crater.

Significant people

• ca. 680 BC — The Greek poet Archilochos is born on the island of Paros.