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Revolt of Assur
The Revolt of Assur was a rebellion in the Assyrian city of Aššur in 763 BCE, under King Aššur-dān III, recorded alongside a solar eclipse.
Revolt of Babylon (626 BC)
The Revolt of Babylon in 626 BC was the Babylonian uprising against Assyrian rule that brought Nabopolassar to the throne in Babylon and, with the Medes, ended the Neo-Assyrian Empire at Nineveh in 612 BC.
Revolt of Bomilcar
The Revolt of Bomilcar was a failed coup in Carthage by the general Bomilcar during Agathocles' invasion of North Africa, crushed in street fighting around 308 BC.
Revolt of Dionysius Petosarapis
The revolt of Dionysius Petosarapis was an uprising in Alexandria against Ptolemy VI in 168 BC, led by an Egyptian courtier who was defeated at Eleusis.
Revolt of Guzana
The Revolt of Guzana was an uprising at Guzana, biblical Gozan and modern Tell Halaf, against Assyrian rule in 758 BC, recorded in the Eponym Chronicle under Ashur-dan III.
Revolt of Hanigalbat against Assyria
The revolt of Hanigalbat, also called the Hanigalbat revolt, was an uprising in the former Mitanni heartland against Assyrian rule under Tukulti-Ninurta I, reportedly backed by Hittites and Ahlamu.
Revolt of Ilu-bi'di of Hamath
The Revolt of Ilu-bi'di of Hamath, led by Yau-bi'di, was an uprising against the Assyrian king Sargon II, crushed in 720 BC after a battle near Qarqar.
Revolt of Kashtaritu
The Revolt of Kashtaritu, or Kashtariti revolt, was an anti-Assyrian rising around 675 BCE led by Kaštaritu, a city lord of Karkaššî in the Zagros, against Esarhaddon of Assyria.
Revolt of Magas
The Revolt of Magas, or Cyrene revolt of Magas, was the secession of Cyrenaica from Ptolemaic Egypt under Magas, half-brother of Ptolemy II, in the 270s BC.
Revolt of Nabopolassar against Assyria
The Revolt of Nabopolassar against Assyria was the Babylonian uprising from the 620s BC in which Nabopolassar seized the throne of Babylon, founding the Neo-Babylonian dynasty.
Revolt of Panehesy
The Revolt of Panehesy, also called the Rebellion of Panehesy, was the takeover of Thebes by the Viceroy of Kush Panehsy under Ramesses XI, around 1089 BC.
Revolt of Pedubast I against Takelot II
The revolt of Pedubast I against Takelot II was a civil war at Thebes in ancient Egypt, beginning in Takelot II's regnal year 11 when Pedubast proclaimed himself king.
Revolt of Rim-Anum
The Revolt of Rim-Anum was the secession of Uruk from Babylon under Samsu-iluna around 1741 BC, part of a wider southern revolt, making Rim-Anum king of Uruk for three years.
Revolt of Shamash-shum-ukin
The Revolt of Shamash-shum-ukin was a civil war of 652 to 648 BC in which Šamaš-šuma-ukīn, king of Babylon, rose against his brother Ashurbanipal of Assyria.
Revolt of Sidon (351–345 BC)
The Revolt of Sidon, also known as the Revolt of Tennes, was a Phoenician uprising against Artaxerxes III that ended with Sidon burned around 345 BC.
Revolt of Tabal against Assyria
The revolt of Tabal against Assyria was the 713 BC rebellion of King Ambaris of Tabal against Sargon II of Assyria, ending in his capture and Tabal's annexation as a province.
Revolt of the Delta vassals against Assyria
The Revolt of the Delta vassals against Assyria was a conspiracy of native Delta chiefs against Assyrian rule, plotted with Taharqa and crushed by Ashurbanipal after 667 BC.
Revolts against Mursili II
The revolts against Mursili II were uprisings by vassals of the Hittite Empire, chiefly the kingdom of Arzawa, which Mursili crushed in campaigns in his third and fourth regnal years.
Rezin
Rezin, also known as Rahianu, Rasin, or Rasun, was the last king of Aram-Damascus, an Aramean kingdom centered on Damascus; he died when the city fell to Assyria in 732 BC.
Rezon (son of Eliada)
Rezon, son of Eliada, is an Aramean ruler known only from 1 Kings 11:23-25, where he flees Hadadezer of Zobah, seizes Damascus, and becomes an adversary of Solomon.
Rhetorical Stela of Ramesses II
The Rhetorical Stela of Ramesses II is an inscribed Egyptian stela of the pharaoh Ramesses II, praising the king as victorious and pious without reference to a particular event.
Rhind Mathematical Papyrus 2/n table
The Rhind Mathematical Papyrus 2/n table is an ancient Egyptian table expressing 2 divided by every odd number from 3 to 101 as sums of unit fractions.
Rhodes Phoenician-Greek bilingual inscriptions
The Rhodes Phoenician-Greek bilingual inscriptions are three Hellenistic inscriptions from Rhodes in both Greek and Phoenician; the best-known, a marble plaque found in 1968, is in the Rhodes Museum.
Rib-Hadda
Rib-Hadda, also written Rib-Adda, was king of Byblos on the Lebanese coast around 1370 to 1340 BC, a vassal of Egypt who wrote more Amarna letters than anyone else.
Rim-Anum
Rim-Anum, also known as Rīm-Anum, was an Old Babylonian king of Uruk who took the throne during the southern revolt against Samsu-iluna of Babylon around 1742 BC.
Rim-Sin I
Rim-Sin I (Rīm-Sîn) was the last king of the Larsa dynasty in southern Babylonia, reigning about 1822 to 1763 BC, the longest reign of any known Mesopotamian ruler.
Rim-Sin I's conquest of Isin
Rim-Sin I's conquest of Isin was the capture of Isin by Larsa around 1793 BC, ending the dynasty of Isin and making Rim-Sin ruler of all southern Babylonia.
Rim-Sin II
Rim-Sin II (Rīm-Sîn II) was a rebel king of Larsa who claimed the kingship of southern Mesopotamia in the uprising against Samsu-iluna of Babylon, who defeated and killed him.
Rim-Sin II revolt
The Rim-Sin II revolt, also called the Revolt of Rim-Sin II, was an anti-Babylonian uprising in Larsa, southern Mesopotamia, beginning in Samsu-iluna's year 8 and suppressed within about two years.
Rimum (servant of Inzak)
Rimum, also written Ri'mum, was a ruler of Dilmun, ancient Bahrain, in the first half of the 2nd millennium BC and father of King Yagli-El.