598 BC

Millennium:	1st millennium BC
Centuries:	7th century BC – 6th century BC – 5th century BC
Decades:	620s BC  610s BC  600s BC  – 590s BC –  580s BC  570s BC  560s BC
Years:	601 BC 600 BC 599 BC – 598 BC – 597 BC 596 BC 595 BC

598 BC in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	598 BC
Ab urbe condita	156
Ancient Egypt era	XXVI dynasty, 67
- Pharaoh	Necho II, 13
Ancient Greek era	45th Olympiad, year 3
Assyrian calendar	4153
Bengali calendar	−1190
Berber calendar	353
Buddhist calendar	−53
Burmese calendar	−1235
Byzantine calendar	4911–4912
Chinese calendar	壬戌年 (Water Dog) 2099 or 2039     — to — 癸亥年 (Water Pig) 2100 or 2040
Coptic calendar	−881 – −880
Discordian calendar	569
Ethiopian calendar	−605 – −604
Hebrew calendar	3163–3164
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	−541 – −540
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	2504–2505
Holocene calendar	9403
Iranian calendar	1219 BP – 1218 BP
Islamic calendar	1256 BH – 1255 BH
Julian calendar	N/A
Korean calendar	1736
Minguo calendar	2509 before ROC 民前2509年
Thai solar calendar	−55 – −54

Events

• Jehoiachin succeeds Jehoiakim as king of Judah.
• Traditional date for the foundation of Kamarina by settlers from Syracuse.^[1]

Deaths

• Jehoiakim, king of Judah

References

1. E.J. Bickerman, Chronology of the Ancient World (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1968), p. 198