Nebuchadnezzar II

The most powerful king of the Neo-Babylonian Empire, who destroyed the kingdom of Judah and the Temple in Jerusalem and rebuilt Babylon with the Ishtar Gate.

Lived	c. 634 BC – 562 BC
Known as	King of Babylon
Birthplace or main place	Babylon
Places on the map	Babylon, Jerusalem

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Events in his lifetime

Year	Event	Where
587 BC	Nebuchadnezzar destroys Jerusalem and the Judeans are deported to Babylon	Babylon
605 BC	Nebuchadnezzar II becomes king and builds the Ishtar Gate	Babylon

Contemporaries

Lived	Person
c. 600 BC – 530 BC	Cyrus the Great	Founder of the Achaemenid Persian Empire

Last updated 9 November 2026. Sources: border data from historical-basemaps, land and rivers from Natural Earth; texts written for Chronica Maps from standard reference works. How we make the maps.

Nebuchadnezzar II

Events in his lifetime

Further reading

Contemporaries