668 BC
Millennium: | 1st millennium BC |
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Centuries: | 8th century BC · 7th century BC · 6th century BC |
Decades: | 690s BC · 680s BC · 670s BC · 660s BC · 650s BC · 640s BC · 630s BC |
Years: | 671 BC · 670 BC · 669 BC · 668 BC · 667 BC · 666 BC · 665 BC |
668 BC by topic |
Politics |
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Categories |
Gregorian calendar | 668 BC DCLXVII BC |
Ab urbe condita | 86 |
Ancient Egypt era | XXV dynasty, 85 |
- Pharaoh | Taharqa, 23 |
Ancient Greek era | 28th Olympiad (victor)¹ |
Assyrian calendar | 4083 |
Bengali calendar | −1260 |
Berber calendar | 283 |
Buddhist calendar | −123 |
Burmese calendar | −1305 |
Byzantine calendar | 4841–4842 |
Chinese calendar | 壬子年 (Water Rat) 2029 or 1969 — to — 癸丑年 (Water Ox) 2030 or 1970 |
Coptic calendar | −951 – −950 |
Discordian calendar | 499 |
Ethiopian calendar | −675 – −674 |
Hebrew calendar | 3093–3094 |
Hindu calendars | |
- Vikram Samvat | −611 – −610 |
- Shaka Samvat | N/A |
- Kali Yuga | 2433–2434 |
Holocene calendar | 9333 |
Iranian calendar | 1289 BP – 1288 BP |
Islamic calendar | 1329 BH – 1328 BH |
Javanese calendar | N/A |
Julian calendar | N/A |
Korean calendar | 1666 |
Minguo calendar | 2579 before ROC 民前2579年 |
Nanakshahi calendar | −2135 |
Thai solar calendar | −125 – −124 |
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Events
By Place
Middle East
- King Ashurbanipal puts down an Egyptian rebellion. He drives out Egypt's Ethiopian king Taharqa, and restores Necho I as governor of Sais in the Nile Delta.
- Nineveh, capital of Assyria becomes the largest city of the world, taking the lead from Thebes in Egypt (estimation).[1]
- Shamash-shum-ukin, second son of the late Assyrian king Esarhaddon, becomes king of Babylon.
References
- ↑ Rosenberg, Matt T. "Largest Cities Through History".
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