627 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:	630 BC 629 BC 628 BC – 627 BC – 626 BC 625 BC 624 BC

627 BC in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	627 BC
Ab urbe condita	127
Ancient Egypt era	XXVI dynasty, 38
- Pharaoh	Psamtik I, 38
Ancient Greek era	38th Olympiad, year 2
Assyrian calendar	4124
Bengali calendar	−1219
Berber calendar	324
Buddhist calendar	−82
Burmese calendar	−1264
Byzantine calendar	4882–4883
Chinese calendar	癸巳年 (Water Snake) 2070 or 2010     — to — 甲午年 (Wood Horse) 2071 or 2011
Coptic calendar	−910 – −909
Discordian calendar	540
Ethiopian calendar	−634 – −633
Hebrew calendar	3134–3135
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	−570 – −569
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	2475–2476
Holocene calendar	9374
Iranian calendar	1248 BP – 1247 BP
Islamic calendar	1286 BH – 1285 BH
Julian calendar	N/A
Korean calendar	1707
Minguo calendar	2538 before ROC 民前2538年
Thai solar calendar	−84 – −83

Events

• Durrës is founded in present-day Albania.
• Traditional date for the foundation of Epidamnus by Corinth.^[1]
• Ashur-etil-ilani succeeds Ashurbanipal as king of Assyria (approximate date)
• Sinsharishkun succeeds his brother Ashur-etil-ilani as king of Assyria (approximate date).

Deaths

• Ashurbanipal, Assyrian king (approximate date) (b. 685 BC)
• Ashur-etil-ilani, Assyrian king
• Cypselus, Greek tyrant of Corinth
• Kandalanu, Babylonian king

References

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