See Leviticus 25.

Assyria invades Egypt using iron technology. (ASHURBANIPAL of Assyria: 668-627 BC).

NAHUM prophesies the destruction of Nineveh using the city of No-Amon (Thebes in Egypt) as an example. (It was sacked by ASHURBANIPAL of Assyria in 663).

Judaea/Judah – King MANASSEH erects a carved idol in the Temple sanctuary (2 Chron.33:7), and is later taken hostage to Babylon by the Assyrians –

prison MANASSEH repents toward God and is subsequently released back to Jerusalem as its king.
He cleanses and restores the Jerusalem Temple and its service.

MANASSEH dies. AMON, his son, is crowned king.

In Judaea/Judah – Ungodly King AMON is murdered.
His son, JOSIAH, becomes king at the age of 8.

In Judaea/Judah – King JOSIAH, aged 16, begins to seek the Lord.
In Palestine – A Jewish Sabbatical Year for the land.

In Judaea/Judah – The prophet ZEPHANIAH prophesies.

In Azerbaijan, in northern Persia – The prohet/reformer Zoroaster/Zarathustra begins in promoting monotheism.

In Judaea/Judah – JOSIAH, aged 20, begins to purge Jerusalem and its countryside of paganism.

In Nineveh, Assyria – The last great Assyrian emperor ASHURBANIPAL writes, during his reign which ended in this year, of his personal pride in being able to read –

In Judaea/Judah – JEREMIAH is called to the prophetic ministry, age 20 at most (cf. Jeremiah 25:3).

In Palestine – A Jewish Sabbatical Year for the land.
A tribal group, the Chaldeans (who later become the Babylonians) win their independence from the Assyrians.

JEREMIAH is told by God that the kingdom of Judah is now morally more corrupt that the kingdom of Israel which God had judged and sent into exile for their unfaithfulness to His Covenant –

Israel's Jubilee Year (50-year cycle in Hebrew inclusive-counting, 49-year cycle in modern counting, see Leviticus 23:15-16), and the eighteenth year of king JOSIAH'S reign.

In Judaea/Judah – HILKIAH, the High Priest, discovers the Covenant scroll in the Temple, initiating a spiritual renewal under King JOSIAH.
The Ark of the Covenant is returned to the Temple (2 Chron.35:3), and the greatest Passover since the prophet SAMUEL is celebrated in Jerusalem (2 Chronicles 34:14-33; 35:18).

In Judaea/Judah – Birth of prince JEHOIACHIN (CONIAH).

Nineveh, capital of Assyria, falls as prophesied by NAHUM.

"He (Josiah) did not listen to the words of Neco from the mouth of God, but came to fight in the plain of Megiddo."

Judaea/Judah – JOSIAH's son JEHOAHAZ (SHALLUM) is crowned king, but after three months he is deported to Egypt by Pharaoh NECHO and dies there (Jeremiah 22:11-17).

September 10: In Judaea/Judah – Pharaoh makes his elder brother ELIAKIM king, changes his name to JEHOIAKIM, and imposes tribute to Egypt on Judah.

rebukes the nation for its infant sacrifice crimes  –

In Judaea/Judah – HABAKKUK begins to prophesy about a coming invasion by the Chaldeans.

JEHOIAKIM abducts the prophet URIAH son of SHEMAIAH from Egypt and murders him. (Jeremiah 26:21-23).

In Egypt – Crown prince NEBUCHADNEZZAR (נְבוּכַדְנֶצַּר, c.634–562 BC) of Babylon (eldest son of Nabopolassar who had freed Babylon from subservience to Assyria and laid Nineveh in ruins) now soundly defeats pharaoh NECHO II of Egypt.
In Judah/Judaea – King JEHOIAKIM becomes a vassal of Babylon, and young DANIEL is deported there with many others.

August 15: NEBUCHADNEZZAR's father dies.

In Jerusalem – JEREMIAH prophesies a 70 year Exile of Judah from its Land –

February 2 – March 2: NEBUCHADNEZZAR returns to complete the conquest of the Hittites and exact heavy tribute.

December: In Judaea/Judah – King JEHOIAKIM burns the scroll of JEREMIAH's prophecies while JEREMIAH is under house arrest (Jer.36:22).
In Palestine – A Jewish Sabbatical Year.

In Judaea/Judah – JEHOIAKIM breaks his vassal treaty with NEBUCHADNEZZAR (2 Kings 24:1).

Babylonian armies are temporarily defeated by the Egyptians on Egypt's border after a fierce battle.

Pharaoh NECHO II (Nekau/Neco) of Egypt commissions a Phoenician expedition to circumnavigate Africa clockwise (reported by Herodotus, who did not believe it), taking three years to complete the journey.

In Judaea/Judah – King NEBUCHADNEZZAR takes 3,023 Jewish captives in a preliminary campaign (Jeremiah 52:8). 
December 9: In Judea/Judah – JEHOIAKIM son of JOSIAH dies.
His corpse is discarded in disgrace (as JEREMIAH had previously prophesied of him) –

In Judaea/Judah – HOSHAIAH, the commander of a small military outpost close to Jerusalem, writes to YAUSH/JOASH, the military governor of Lachish with military and political information. He quotes the king of Judaea/Judah as saying that the words of the prophet (JEREMIAH) demoralize the people as they face the Babylonian threat –

He appeals to YAUSH/JOASH to intercede on behalf of this prophet before the king and his officers.

March 16 (2 Adar): In Judea/Judah – JEHOIACHIN, who reigned for only three months, is taken captive with his family and all the leaders of Judah by King NEBUCHADNEZZAR of Babylon.

April 22: JEHOIACHIN and family are deported to Babylon with 10,000 others, including the prophet EZEKIEL and KISH, the great grandfather of MORDECAI (Esther 2:5-6). All gold (including all gold furniture such as the Ark of the covenant) is stripped and the gold is shipped to Babylon (2 Kings 24:13).

Judaea/Judah – NEBUCHADNEZZAR appoints MATTANIAH (JEHOIACHIN's uncle) as king, and changes his name to ZEDEKIAH (Jer.27,28).

ZARATHUSTRA (ZOROASTER) of Bactria (Northern Afghanistan) begins his preaching ministry among the Achaemenid/Persian tribes.

to the exiles taken to Babylon by Nebuchadnezzar's earlier conquest, because they were being misled by false prophets to expect an early return –

July 31: In Babylonia – EZEKIEL sees the vision of the Cherubim and Chariot (Merkavah) of God (Ezekiel .1:1-3). His prophetic ministry now begins.

September 17: EZEKIEL sees the vision of abominations in the Jerusalem Temple and the departure of God's presence from it (Ez.8-11), because of the cruel human-sacrifice perpetrated by Judah to obtain prosperity through their idols –

January 15: In Judaea/Judah – NEBUCHADNEZZAR's siege of Jerusalem begins.
God says to JEREMIAH (See Ezekiel 24:1):

"Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel [to JEREMIAH]: Go and speak to Zedekiah king of Judah and say to him – 'Thus says the Lord:

Jeremiah's horrific experience of Jerusalem under siege, in this agonised cry of his heart –

encourages those who believe, with God's words which promise a reuniting of the whole nation in their restoration to Jerusalem –
when God judges Babylon –

January 7: EZEKIEL prophesies against Pharaoh of Egypt concerning its overthrow because they failed to keep their treaty with Judah. (Ezekiel 29:1-).

April 23: EZEKIEL prophesies against the city-state of Tyre of its destruction, which had seen advantage for itself in the destruction of Jerusalem (Ezekiel 26:1-).
April 29: EZEKIEL prophesies the complete destruction of Egypt and the exile of its population (Ezekiel 30:20-).

June 21: EZEKIEL prophesies against Pharaoh of Egypt (Ezekiel 31:1-).

July 18: In Judaea/Judah – Jerusalem falls to the Babylonian army.
EZEKIEL's wife dies in their house at Tel-abib on the Chebar canal south-east of Babylon, near the city of Nippur (Ezekiel 24:18).

of 587 assumes a Judean regnal year that began in Spring [c.March].
The alternate year-date 586 assumes that the regnal years of Judean kings began in Autumn [c.October].

15 to 18: In Judaea/Judah – NEBUCHADNEZZAR's captain of the guard, NEBUZARADAN, burns Jerusalem and the Temple (including the Ark of the Covenant, Jer.3:16) – and carries off remaining Temple treasures.

destruction of Jerusalem, the Jewish survivors believe (with 'Zionist' ambition) that they can begin again to take possession and rebuild their land, saying –

rebuttal the Lord God says –

• NEBUZARADAN brings SERAIAH the High Priest and other leaders to NEBUCHADNEZZAR at Riblah for execution.
(His successor as High Priest JEHOZADAK is deported).

NEBUCHADNEZZAR appoints GEDALIAH as governor of Palestine, with whom JEREMIAH chooses to stay at Mizpah, the new capital (Jeremiah 40:1-12).
In Judaea/Judah – Governor GEDALIAH, a supporter of JEREMIAH, is murdered by ISHMAEL a member of the Jewish royal family (2 Kings.25:22-26; Jeremiah 40-44). (His murder is still mourned today by Jews at the fast of Tishri 3).

OBADIAH the prophet prophesies the annihilation of Edom for their bloody plundering of the refugees fleeing from Jerusalem.

In Judaea/Judah – The remaining Jews under leadership of JOHANAN, fearing a Babylonian reprisal, force the prophet JEREMIAH to flee with them to Egypt where they found Jewish military colonies, such as at Yeb (Elephantine) in southern Egypt (in spite of Ezekiel's prophecies against Egypt: Ezekiel 29).
JEREMIAH continues to prophesy in Egypt (Jeremiah 43:8; 44:30).

plants were most valued as writing material. The papyrus reed peels like an onion, and once the green outer layer is removed, there are about twenty inner layers. These would be unrolled and laid out on a hard and smooth table, with each layer slightly overlapping the next....
"Other civilizations in different climates found other plants to flatten into writing surfaces. What was unique about Egyptian papyrus, however, was that it became a valuable commercial product that was exported throughout the known world. ..."Papyrus was mostly used by scribes, who wrote with reed styluses, the ends chewed off into stiff brushes. Students studying to become scribes would begin with writing boards that were covered with a soft plaster that was erasable, just like Sumerian clay. You could simply pat the plaster down and start again. But an even more common implement that endured for centuries was the wax tablet, a board with a hollowed­ out center that was filled with wax – most likely beeswax.
In Assyria, such tablets have been found dating back as far as 80 BCE. They were extremely popular in ancient Greece and Rome, where the wax was black and the writing done with a metal stylus that was pointed on one end for writing and blunt on the other for erasing. (quoted from Paper by Mark Kurlansky)