648 BC

Millennium:	1st millennium BC
Centuries:	8th century BC – 7th century BC – 6th century BC
Decades:	670s BC  660s BC  650s BC  – 640s BC –  630s BC  620s BC  610s BC
Years:	651 BC 650 BC 649 BC – 648 BC – 647 BC 646 BC 645 BC

648 BC in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	648 BC
Ab urbe condita	106
Ancient Egypt era	XXVI dynasty, 17
- Pharaoh	Psamtik I, 17
Ancient Greek era	33rd Olympiad (victor)¹
Assyrian calendar	4103
Bengali calendar	−1240
Berber calendar	303
Buddhist calendar	−103
Burmese calendar	−1285
Byzantine calendar	4861–4862
Chinese calendar	壬申年 (Water Monkey) 2049 or 1989     — to — 癸酉年 (Water Rooster) 2050 or 1990
Coptic calendar	−931 – −930
Discordian calendar	519
Ethiopian calendar	−655 – −654
Hebrew calendar	3113–3114
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	−591 – −590
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	2454–2455
Holocene calendar	9353
Iranian calendar	1269 BP – 1268 BP
Islamic calendar	1308 BH – 1307 BH
Julian calendar	N/A
Korean calendar	1686
Minguo calendar	2559 before ROC 民前2559年
Thai solar calendar	−105 – −104

Two Ancient Greek wrestlers (pankration)

Events

Middle East

• Babylon falls to Assyrian forces after a 3-year siege (see 651 BC); starved out by his half brother Ashurbanipal, king Shamash-shum-ukin commits suicide in his burning palace, allegedly having built a pyre of his concubines and royal treasure as the Assyrians slaughter his city's garrison and much of its population.

Greece

• Messenians in the Peloponnese revolt against Sparta under the leadership of king Aristomenes, beginning a struggle that will continue until 631 BC.
• April 6 - The earliest solar eclipse to be chronicled by the Greeks is observed.^[1]

Sports

• Greece's 33rd Olympiad is held at Olympia with a new event: the pankration is a no-holds-barred contest that combines boxing and wrestling.

Births

• Josiah, king of Judah (d. 609 BC)

Deaths

• Shamash-shum-ukin, Assyrian king of Babylonia

References

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