Ruler · 765 – 705 BCE

Sargon II

Lived 765 – 705 BCE. King of Assyria (Assyria), 722 BCE – 705 BCE; also in the line of Neo-Assyrian Empire, Babylon and Babylonia.

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Lived: 765 BCE – 705 BCE; 60 years
In office: 17 years; one reign
Lines: 4; states
Left it: died in office; read off the dates alone

King of Assyria

Assyria · the 63rd of 72 dated reigns · 2026 BCE – 609 BCE

59 before

Ashur-nirari V755 BCE – 745 BCE

Tiglath-Pileser III745 BCE – 727 BCE

Shalmaneser V727 BCE – 722 BCE

Sargon II722 BCE – 705 BCE

Sennacherib705 BCE – 681 BCE

Aššur-nādin-šumi700 BCE – 694 BCE

Esarhaddon681 BCE – 669 BCE

6 after

killed, executed or dead in battledeposed, abdicated, exiled or removeddied in officeleft alive by a regular roadending not on recorda second row: a reign that began before the last had ended — rival claimants, or a shared thronethis entry

Reigned 722 BCE – 705 BCE · 17 years · came to it aged 43

Came to it: the sibling of the ruler before, on record
Left it: died in officeread off the dates alone: the term ends in 705 BCE, the year they died

Also in the line of Neo-Assyrian Empire (12th of 21), Babylon (16th of 37) and Babylonia (16th of 37, read from the line of Babylon).

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