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General

Population: Perhaps 100 million*

• Births: Philosopher Anaximander of Miletus (611 BC)
• Entertainment: Sappho of Lesbos writes (612 BC)

Europe

• Italian States: Start of the reign of Tarquinis Priscus, King of the Etruscans in Rome (616 BC)

Middle East

• Assyria: Nineveh sacked by Babylonians (Scythians/Persians) and Medes leaving 10,000 dead and destroying Neo-Assyrian empire (612 BC)