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| c. 1700 BC |
| | | Hammurabi destroys Mari (concealing for posterity an extraordinary cuneiform archive not discovered until 1933) | |
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| c. 1700 BC |
| | | More than 25,000 cuneiform tablets (unearthed since 1933 at Mari) provide a detailed account of Assyria in the late 18th century BC | |
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| c. 1700 BC |
| | | Ashur, or Assyria, sinks into almost a millennium of fluctuating but largely diminished fortunes | |
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| 883-859 BC |
| | | Assyria, during the reign of Ashurnasirpal II, once again recovers an extensive empire | |
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| c. 870 BC |
| | | Ashurnasirpal II creates a spectacular new capital at Nimrud (and claims to have had 69,574 guests at his palace-warming party) | |
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| c. 870 BC |
| | | An annual event in Assyria is the departure of the army in spring for an expedition of ruthless and brutal conquest | |
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| -868 BC |
| | | Ashburbanipal II extracts tribute from the cities of Phoenicia, beginning a period of Assyrian domination of the region | |
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| c. -850 BC |
| | | The Assyrians develop the battering ram into a mobile and powerful siege engine | |
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| c. -800 BC |
| | | The Assyrian army makes good use of the new technology by which iron can be hardened into steel suitable for weapons | |
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| 722 BC |
| | | The Assyrians overwhelm the north of Israel and the ten northern tribes vanish from history - the majority of them probably dispersed or sold into slavery | |
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