Ruler · 745 – 681 BCE

Sennacherib

Lived 745 – 681 BCE. King of Assyria (Assyria), 705 BCE – 681 BCE; also in the line of Neo-Assyrian Empire, Babylon and Babylonia.

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Lived: 745 BCE – 681 BCE; 64 years
In office: 24 years; one reign
Lines: 4; states
Left it: killed in office; Wikidata's manner of death

King of Assyria

Assyria · the 64th of 72 dated reigns · 2026 BCE – 609 BCE

60 before

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

Ashurbanipal669 BCE – 631 BCE

5 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 705 BCE – 681 BCE · 24 years · came to it aged 40

Came to it: the child of the ruler before, on record
Left it: killed in officeWikidata's manner of death: stab wound

Also in the line of Neo-Assyrian Empire (13th of 21), Babylon (17th of 37) and Babylonia (17th of 37, read from the line of Babylon).

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