626 BC

Millennium:	1st millennium BC
Centuries:	8th century BC – 7th century BC – 6th century BC
Decades:	650s BC  640s BC  630s BC  – 620s BC –  610s BC  600s BC  590s BC
Years:	629 BC 628 BC 627 BC – 626 BC – 625 BC 624 BC 623 BC

626 BC in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	626 BC
Ab urbe condita	128
Ancient Egypt era	XXVI dynasty, 39
- Pharaoh	Psamtik I, 39
Ancient Greek era	38th Olympiad, year 3
Assyrian calendar	4125
Bengali calendar	−1218
Berber calendar	325
Buddhist calendar	−81
Burmese calendar	−1263
Byzantine calendar	4883–4884
Chinese calendar	甲午年 (Wood Horse) 2071 or 2011     — to — 乙未年 (Wood Goat) 2072 or 2012
Coptic calendar	−909 – −908
Discordian calendar	541
Ethiopian calendar	−633 – −632
Hebrew calendar	3135–3136
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	−569 – −568
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	2476–2477
Holocene calendar	9375
Iranian calendar	1247 BP – 1246 BP
Islamic calendar	1285 BH – 1284 BH
Julian calendar	N/A
Korean calendar	1708
Minguo calendar	2537 before ROC 民前2537年
Thai solar calendar	−83 – −82

Events

• Jeremiah begins his ministry in the Kingdom of Judah.
• 23 November -- Nabopolassar revolts against his Assyrian overlords, establishing the Neo-Babylonian Empire.^[1]

Deaths

• King Cheng of Chu, king of the state of Chu

References

1. Date based on the Babylonian computation. E.J. Bickerman, Chronology of the Ancient World (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1968), p. 157