* Melanchrus-he was overthrown sometime between 612 BC and 609 BC by a faction that, in addition to the brothers of Alcaeus, included Pittacus ( later renowned as one of the Seven Sages of Greece ); Alcaeus at that time was too young to be actively involved ;

Megiddo was the location of various ancient battles, including one in the 15th century BC and one in 609 BC.

Assyria lasted a few more years after the loss of its fortress, but attempts by Egyptian Pharaoh Neco II to rally the Assyrians failed due to opposition from king Josiah of Judah, and it seemed to be all over by 609 BC.

The project began in 605 and was completed in 609, although much of the work combined older canals, the oldest section of the canal existing since at least 486 BC.

In 612 BC they destroyed Nineveh, Harran fell in 609 BC, and the last Assyrian army at Carchemish in 605 BC.

The Book of Kings relates how a " law of Moses " was discovered in the Temple during the reign of King Josiah ( r. 641 – 609 BC ).

* 609 BC: King Josiah of Judah dies in the Battle of Megiddo against Pharaoh Necho II of Egypt, who is on his way north to aid the rump Assyrian state of Ashur-uballit II.

* 609 BC: The Babylonians defeat the Assyrian army of Ashur-uballit II and capture Harran.

* 609 BC: Jehoahaz succeeds his father Josiah as King of Judah, but is quickly deposed by Necho, who installs Jehoahaz's brother Jehoiakim in his place.

* Josiah of the Kingdom of Judah ( reigned 641 BC – 609 BC )

* 609 BC — The Babylonians defeat the Assyrian army of Ashur-uballit II and capture Harran.

** Battle of Megiddo ( 609 BC )

* Battle of Megiddo ( 609 BC ), a battle between Egypt and Judea

The Book of Kings states that Necho met King Josiah of the Kingdom of Judah at Megiddo and killed him () ( see Battle of Megiddo ( 609 BC )).

Aerial view of Tel Megiddo site of the battle of Megiddo ( 609 BC ) | battle of Megiddo in 609 BC.

In the spring of 609 BC, Necho personally led a sizable force to help the Assyrians.

God's commission to Joshua in chapter 1 is framed as a royal installation, the people's pledge of loyalty to Joshua as successor Moses recalls royal practices, the covenant-renewal ceremony led by Joshua was the prerogative of the kings of Judah, and God's command to Joshua to meditate on the " book of the law " day and night parallels the description of Josiah in 2 Kings 23: 25 as a king uniquely concerned with the study of the law — not to mention their identical territorial goals ( Josiah died in 609 BCE while attempting to annex the former Israel to his own kingdom of Judah ).

* 1. 609 km — 1 mile

On what had been the culminating day of the Lemuralia, May 13 in 609 or 610 — the day being recorded as more significant than the year —, Pope Boniface IV consecrated the Pantheon at Rome to the Blessed Virgin and all the martyrs, and the feast of that dedicatio Sanctae Mariae ad Martyres has been celebrated at Rome ever since.

At the 2001 census the civil parish — which also includes the Sheffield suburbs of Chapeltown, Grenoside, High Green, and formerly Thorpe Hesley ( now a suburb of Rotherham ) — had a population of 31, 609.

:* Final — 609. 51 (→ 5th place )

** Final — 609. 12 points (→ 5th place )

In 609 BC, King Nabopolassar captured Kumukh, which cut off the Egyptian army, then based at Carchemish.

The NYT also reported that Coats was co-chairman of the Washington government relations office of King & Spalding, with a salary of $ 603, 609.

609 BCE: King Josiah of Judah institutes major reforms.

Detective Anthony Vincenzo " Tony " Baretta is an unorthodox plainclothes cop ( badge # 609 ) with the 53rd precinct, who lives with Fred, his Triton Sulphur-crested Cockatoo, in apartment 2C at the run-down King Edward Hotel in an unnamed Eastern city ( presumably Newark, New Jersey ).

* Battle of Megiddo ( 609 BC ): fought between Egypt and the Kingdom of Judah, in which King Josiah fell.

Josiah became king of Judah at the age of eight, after the assassination of his father, King Amon, and reigned for thirty-one years, from 641 / 640 to 610 / 609 BC.

The earliest parts of the book are possibly chapters 2 – 11, the story of the conquest ; more certain is that this section was then incorporated into an early form of Joshua that was part of then original Deuteronomistic history, written late in the reign of king Josiah ( reigned 640 – 609 BCE ); it seems clear that the book was not completed until after the fall of Jerusalem to the Babylonians in 586, and possibly not until after the return from the Babylonian exile late in the 6th century.

Josiah was killed in 609 and Judah became a vassal of the new regional power, the Babylonian empire.

* 609 BC: Jerusalem becomes part of the Empire of the Twenty-sixth dynasty of Egypt after Josiah of Judah is killed by the army of Pharaoh Necho II at the Battle of Megiddo ( 609 BC ).

Jehoahaz or Joachaz in the Douay-Rheims and some other English translations (; Iōakhaz ; ) was king of Judah ( 3 months in 609 BC ) and son of king Josiah whom he succeeded and Hamautal, daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.

Josiah died at the hands of Pharaoh Necho II in the summer of 609 BC.

On that basis, Josiah was killed in the month of Tammuz ( July – August ) 609 BC, when the Egyptians were on their way to Harran.

The Book of Kings relates how a " law of Moses " was discovered in the Temple during the reign of king Josiah ( r. 641 – 609 BCE ).

Josiah was a prominent monarch who reigned from 641 BC or 640 BC until 609 BC.

Josiah ruled from 640 BC to 609 BC.

, literally meaning " healed by Yahweh " or " supported of Yahweh "; ; ; c. 649 – 609 BC ) was a king of Judah ( 641 – 609 BC ) who instituted major reforms.

This Battle of Megiddo is recorded as having taken place in 609 BC with Necho II of Egypt leading his army to Carchemish to fight with his allies the Assyrians against the Babylonians at Carchemish in northern Syria.

The Battle of Dhi Qar ( Arabic, يوم ذي قار ), a pre-Islamic battle, pitted the Arabs in southern Iraq against a Persian army, c. 609.

# redirect Battle of Megiddo ( 609 BC )

All three men were Battle of Britain veterans, having served together in No. 609 Squadron RAF, at RAF Middle Wallop.

They had joined the RAF Volunteer Reserve ( RAFVR ) together ( receiving consecutive service numbers ), having been posted to 609 Squadron together, having fought the Battle of Britain together, and having transferred to 71 Squadron together.