Assur: All Data
1. Lists and Timelines
Assur: Chronology of Mentions
Note: For polities of antiquity, the listed capital or subdivision capital may also represent one or several of the most important cities of the region.
2499 BC
Mentioned in Event: Lugal-Anne-Mundu's Campaign on Ur
2459 BC
Mentioned in Event: Lugal-Anne-Mundu's Campaign on Ur
2449 BC
Capital of Assur
2299 BC
Mentioned in Event: Conquest of Sumer by Sargon of Akkad
2049 BC
Mentioned in Event: Campaigns of Puzur-Ashur I
2049 BC
Capital of Assyrian Empire
2024 BC
Mentioned in Event: Campaigns of Puzur-Ashur I
1809 BC
Mentioned in: Siege of Assur
1780 BC
Mentioned in Event: Dadusha conquers the territory between the Zab rivers
1764 BC
Mentioned in Event: Elam's Invasion into Mesopotamia
1761 BC
Mentioned in Event: Hammurabi's invasion of Elam
1720 BC
Mentioned in Event: Campaigns of Shamshi-Adad I
1449 BC
Mentioned in Event: Mitanni conquers Assur
1449 BC
Capital of Assyrian empire (Mitanni)
1391 BC
Mentioned in Event: Campaigns of Eriba-Adad I
1207 BC
Capital of Assyrian Empire
670 BC
Subdivision Capital of the Province of Assur, part of Assyrian Empire
614 BC
Mentioned in: Fall of Assur
613 BC
Mentioned in Event: Fall of Assur
549 BC
Mentioned in Event: Persian Revolt
331 BC
Mentioned in Event: Conquest of the Achaemenid Empire
315 BC
Mentioned in Event: Consolidation of the borders after the Second War of the Diadochi
311 BC
Mentioned in Event: Babylonian War
140 BC
Mentioned in Event: Seleucid-Parthian wars
129 BC
Mentioned in Event: Wars of Antiochus VII
128 BC
Mentioned in Event: Wars of Antiochus VII
117 AD
Mentioned in Event: Trajan's Parthian Campaign
119 AD
Mentioned in Event: Trajan's Parthian Campaign
167 AD
Mentioned in Event: Roman-Parthian War of 161-166
168 AD
Mentioned in Event: Roman-Parthian War of 161-166
217 AD
Mentioned in Event: Military Campaigns in Parthia by Caracalla
233 AD
Mentioned in Event: Sasanid Campaign of Alexander Severus
264 AD
Mentioned in Event: Sasanian Campaign of Odaenathus
265 AD
Mentioned in Event: Sasanian Campaign of Odaenathus
284 AD
Mentioned in Event: Sasanian Campaign of Carus and Numerian
299 AD
Mentioned in Event: Sasanian Campaign of Galerius
300 AD
Mentioned in Event: Peace Treaty of Diocletian with the Sasanian Empire
306 AD
Mentioned in Event: Civil wars of the Tetrarchy
314 AD
Mentioned in Event: Civil wars of the Tetrarchy
325 AD
Mentioned in Event: Civil wars of the Tetrarchy
337 AD
Mentioned in Event: Division of the Empire among the sons of Constantine the Great
353 AD
Mentioned in Event: Roman civil war of 350-353
360 AD
Mentioned in Event: Military Campaigns of Shapur II in Syria and Mesopotamia
1918 AD
Mentioned in Event: Mesopotamian campaign
1918 AD
Mentioned in Event: Persian Campaign
1941 AD
Mentioned in Event: Anglo-Iraqi War
1947 AD
Mentioned in Event: Anglo-Iraqi War
1958 AD
Mentioned in Event: 14 July Revolution
2003 AD
Mentioned in Event: 2003 invasion of Iraq
2004 AD
Mentioned in Event: Iraq War
2014 AD
Mentioned in Event: First Anbar Offensive
2016 AD
Mentioned in Event: Mosul offensive (2016)
2017 AD
Mentioned in Event: Battle of Kirkuk (2017)