Ruler · 642 – 561 BCE

Nebuchadnezzar II

Lived 642 – 561 BCE; monarch. King of Babylon (Babylon), 605 BCE – 562 BCE; also in the line of Babylonia.

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Lived: 642 BCE – 561 BCE; 81 years
In office: 43 years; one reign
Lines: 2; states
Left it: died in office; read off the dates alone

King of Babylon

Babylon · the 33rd of 37 dated reigns · 1894 BCE – 539 BCE

29 before

Sîn-šar-iškun626 BCE

Sîn-šumu-līšir626 BCE

Nabopolassar626 BCE – 605 BCE

Nebuchadnezzar II605 BCE – 562 BCE

Amel-Marduk562 BCE – 560 BCE

Neriglissar560 BCE – 556 BCE

Labashi-Marduk556 BCE

1 after

killed, executed or dead in battledeposed, abdicated, exiled or removeddied in officeleft alive by a regular roadending not on recordthis entry

Reigned 605 BCE – 562 BCE · 43 years · came to it aged 37

Came to it: the child of the ruler before, on record
Left it: died in officeread off the dates alone: the term ends in 562 BCE, the year they died

Also in the line of Babylonia (33rd of 37, read from the line of Babylon).

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