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The year '''699 BC''' was a year of the [[Roman calendar|pre-Julian Roman calendar]]. In the [[Roman Empire]], it was known as '''year 55 ''[[Ab urbe condita]]'' '''. The denomination 699 BC for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the [[Anno Domini]] [[calendar era]] became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.
== Events and trends ==
=== By place ===
==== Middle East ====
* Hallashu-Inshushinak succeeds Shuttir-Nakhkhunte as king of the [[Elamite Empire]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Cavendish |first=Marshall |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=j894miuOqc4C&dq=Shuttir-Nakhkhunte&pg=PA1576 |title=World and Its Peoples |date= September 2006|publisher=Marshall Cavendish |isbn=978-0-7614-7571-2 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Carter |first=Elizabeth |url=http://archive.org/details/elamsurveysofpol0000cart |title=Elam : surveys of political history and archaeology |date=1984 |publisher=Berkeley : University of California Press |others=Internet Archive |isbn=978-0-520-09950-0}}</ref>
* [[Manasseh of Judah|Manasseh]] succeeds Hezekiah as king of Judah. The first king who did not have an experience with the [[Kingdom of Israel (Samaria)|Kingdom of Israel]], Manasseh ruled with his mother, Hephzibah, as regent.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.telusplanet.net/dgarneau/euro24.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150629223726/http://metis-history.info/euro24.shtml|archive-date=2015-06-29|title=CANADIAN HISTORY A DISTINCT VIEWPOINT: EUROPEAN & ASIAN HISTORY 700 - 481 BC|website=metis-history.info}}</ref>
* [[Sennacherib]] carries out his fifth [[military campaign]] in [[Babylonia]], a series of raids against the villages around the foot of [[Mount Judi]], located to the northeast of [[Nineveh]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Luckenbill |first=Daniel David |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fXRLAwAAQBAJ&dq=Sennacherib+mount+judi&pg=PA14 |title=The Annals of Sennacherib |date=2005-09-16 |publisher=Wipf and Stock Publishers |isbn=978-1-59752-372-1 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Levine |first=Louis D. |title=Sennacherib's Southern Front: 704-689 B.C. |url=https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.2307/1359991 |journal=Journal of Cuneiform Studies |year=1982 |language=en |volume=34 |issue=1–2 |pages=28–58 |doi=10.2307/1359991 |jstor=1359991 |s2cid=163170919 |issn=0022-0256}}</ref>
== Significant People ==
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