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EVENTS AND TRENDS

Occupation begins at Maya site of Piedras Negras, Guatemala

657 BC - Cypselus becomes the first Tyrant of Corinth .

656 BC - Psammetichus extends his control over all of Egypt . End of Twenty-fifth Dynasty

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-shuma-ukin against the Assyria ns

651 BC - Zhou Xiang Wang becomes King of the Zhou Dynasty of China .

650 BC - The town of Abdera in Thrace is founded by colonists from Clazomenae .

650 BC - a Climate Change affects all the Bronze Age cultures in Europe with colder and wetter climate, and tribes from the Scandinavian Nordic Bronze Age cultures are pushed downwards into the European continent.

SIGNIFICANT PEOPLE

653 BC - Death of Tantamani , last king of the Twenty-fifth Dynasty Of Egypt

652 BC - Death of Gyges , king of Lydia

652 BC - Death of Zhou Hui Wang , King of the Zhou Dynasty of China .

652 BC - First recorded mention of King "Kuras of Parsumas". He is possibly the same as King Cyrus I Of Anshan , head of the Achaemenid Dynasty .