609 BC e.

• C. 609 - The colony of Miletus Apollonius was founded.
• The accession to the throne of Pharaoh Necho II .
• In June - the battle of Megiddo between the armies of the pharaoh Necho II and the Jewish king Josiah, the defeat of the Jews and the death of Josiah . The Jews enthrone his son Joachaz .
• The army of Pharaoh Necho II with the remnants of the army of the Assyrian king Ashur-uballit II besieges Harran fortress with a Babylonian garrison.
• In September, the Babylonian king Nabopalasar, with the help of Media, forces the pharaoh to lift the siege and leave.
• The fall of Assyria : the last territory - Harran, in the west of Upper Mesopotamia - was conquered by Babylon .
• The Egyptian garrisons occupy cities west of the Euphrates River.
• The kingdom of Judea was a vassal of Egypt. Pharaoh Necho II drives Joachaz into Egypt and makes his brother Joachim king.
• 609-597 - King of Judea Joachim , son of Josiah.

China

• The 18th year of the reign of Lusky Prince Wen-gun ^[1] .
• In the 2nd moon, Prince Qin Kang-gun died (the name Ying; he lived in the Gaotsin Palace in Yong, was buried in Jiuhe ^[2] ), he was succeeded by his son He ( Gun-gun , era of reign 608-604) ^[3] . This is the first news of the death of the Qin prince, included in the " Chunqiu " ^[4] .
• In the 2nd moon, on the day of ding chow , in the lower rooms of the palace, Prince Lu Wen-gun died ^[5] . From the eldest wife, the tsiska princess Ai-jiang, there were sons E and Shi, from the second beloved wife Jing-in - Tui ^[6] .
• On the 5th moon, on the day of u-xu, Prince Qi Yi-gun (Shang-jen) was killed ^[7] in a bamboo grove by dignitaries Bin Chu (Bin-jung) and Yan Zhi (Yun-ji) (according to legend, the gong chopped off his legs the corpse of the father of the first and took his wife from the second), they fled. The scribes deposed the son of Yi-gun and put in power the son of Huan-gun and the Wei Princess Shao Wei-ji Yuan, calling him from Wei ( Hui-gun , era of reign 608-599) ^[8] .
• In the 6th moon, on the day of Gui-yu , the lusky prince Wen-gun was buried ^[9] .
• In the fall, the dignitaries of Xiang Zhong and Shusun De-chen arrived in Qi and obtained approval of their actions there in support of Tui ^[10] .
• Lusky Xiang-chung (Dongmen Sui), having obtained the support of the tsisky Hui-gong , killed the Lusky princes E and Shi in the 10th moon and placed the second son Tui in power (Xuan-gun, era of reign 608-591). Ai-jiang returned to Qi and wandered around the square, mourning for her children ^[11] . According to Sima Qian, the accession of the guna was wrong, the baseness of the guna was ruled, and from that time the luska guna began to decline ^[12] .
• In the 10th moon, the Lusian ambassador Jixun Sin-fu went to Qi ^[13] .
• In Song, the sons of Zhao-gun, relying on the support of numerous members of the Prince's Suna family, rebelled. Wen-gun executed the rebels, and the clans of U-gun and Mu-gun expelled (many aristocratic clans were exterminated) ^[14] .
• prince Ji Ji-gun (Shu-chi) declared the eldest son of Pu to be the heir, but then removed him and appointed the youngest son of Ji-something. In the 10th moon, Pu killed his father with the help of some guo-rens and fled to Lu. ^[15] . Lusky Xuan-gong sent a report to his dignitary Ji Wen-tzu, ordering Pu to be given a city. The dignitary Li Ge replaced the report and ordered the exile of the Pu to the eastern barbarians. Li Ge explained to the prince the erroneousness of the order, and he forgave him (episode 45 “ Guo yui ”) ^[16] .

• The Jewish king Josiah fell at the battle of Megiddo .
• Died Kang-gun, ruler of the kingdom of Qin