4 events with tag "Nineveh"
705 BC
ID: 3620
Sennacherib becomes king - moves capital to Nineveh, builds 'Palace without Rival'
ID: 3620
668 BC
ID: 3622
Ashurbanipal becomes king - creates world's first library at Nineveh with 30,000 tablets
ID: 3622
612 BC
ID: 3670
Babylon and Medes destroy Nineveh - end of Assyrian Empire, Babylon inherits southern territories
ID: 3670
612 BC
ID: 3623
August 612 BC
Fall of Nineveh - Medes and Babylonians destroy Assyrian capital, empire collapses
ID: 3623