He was one of three Chaldaean tribal leaders to occupy the Babylonian throne during the course of the 8 century and would be looked back as the ancestor figure during future reigns of members of this group.

Into the vacuum created by the devastation, the southern Chaldeans were able to rise to power and he seems to have been the first member of the tribal group to have made pretensions to the Babylonian throne.

Evil-Merodach only sat on the Babylonian throne for two years.

Another rebellion leader, named Mushezib-Marduk claimed the Babylonian throne and was supported by Elam.

Yamada, for example, argues that Tukulti-Ninurta only ascended the Babylonian throne after their reigns.

According to Jona Lendering, "it seems that in May 323" the Babylonian astrologers tried to avert the misfortune by substituting Alexander with an ordinary person on the Babylonian throne, who would take the brunt of the omen.

Because Kara-Hardash was killed in the rebellion, the Assyrians placed on the Babylonian throne a certain Kurigalzu, who may have been Burnaburiash's son or grandson.

He was the only king to succeed his father to the Babylonian throne between the years 810 and 626 BC and his accession followed shortly after the first incursions of the newly emboldened Neo-Assyrian state.

(reigned 722 BC - 710 BC, 703 BC - 702 BC) was a Chaldean prince who usurped the Babylonian throne in 721 BC.

The permission to do so was embodied in a proclamation, whereby the conqueror endeavored to justify his claim to the Babylonian throne.