Babylon: All Data
Babylon is a city in Iraq. This page covers its chronology of mentions across 5,500 years of history, including capitals, battles, events and subdivisions. Part of Phersu Atlas.
1. Lists and Timelines
Babylon: 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
Mentioned in Event: Campaigns of Enshakushanna
2399 BC
Mentioned in Event: Campaigns of Eannatum
2357 BC
Mentioned in Event: Campaigns of Lugal-zage-si
2349 BC
Mentioned in Event: Campaigns of Lugal-zage-si
1939 BC
Mentioned in Event: Fall of the Neo-Sumerian Empire
1893 BC
Capital of First Babylonian Empire
1762 BC
Mentioned in Event: Elamite attack on Babylon
1595 BC
Mentioned in Event: Campaigns of Mursili I
1595 BC
Mentioned in: Sack of Babylon (1595 BC)
1594 BC
Capital of Kassite dynasty of the Babylonian Empire
1225 BC
Mentioned in: Sack of Babylon (1225 BC)
1224 BC
Mentioned in Event: Assyrian conquest of Babylonia
1206 BC
Mentioned in Event: Independance of Babylon
1154 BC
Capital of Babylon
823 BC
Mentioned in Event: Campaigns of Shalmaneser III
689 BC
Mentioned in: Siege of Babylon
626 BC
Mentioned in: Revolt of Babylon
625 BC
Mentioned in Event: Revolt of Babylon (626 BC)
625 BC
Capital of Neo-Babylonian Empire
549 BC
Capital of Achaemenid Empire
539 BC
Mentioned in Event: Cyrus' Conquest of Babylonia
500 BC
Subdivision Capital of the Satrapy of Babylonia, part of Achaemenid Empire
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: First siege of Babylon
310 BC
Mentioned in Event: Babylonian War
310 BC
Mentioned in: Second Siege of Babylon (310 BC)
309 BC
Mentioned in Event: Babylonian War
309 BC
Mentioned in: Third Siege of Babylon (309 BC)
308 BC
Mentioned in Event: Babylonian War
146 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
198 AD
Mentioned in Event: Military Campaigns in Parthia by Septmius Severus
217 AD
Mentioned in Event: Military Campaigns in Parthia by Caracalla
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
634 AD
Mentioned in: Battle of Babylon (634), part of Conquest of Persia
637 AD
Mentioned in Event: Second invasion of Mesopotamia
637 AD
Mentioned in: Battle of Babylon, part of Second invasion of Mesopotamia
640 AD
Mentioned in: Siege of Babylon Fortress, part of Muslim conquest of Egypt