668 BC

Millennium:	1st millennium BC
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 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	668 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	2434–2435
Holocene calendar	9333
Iranian calendar	1289 BP – 1288 BP
Islamic calendar	1329 BH – 1328 BH
Julian calendar	N/A
Korean calendar	1666
Minguo calendar	2579 before ROC 民前2579年
Thai solar calendar	−125 – −124

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

1. http://geography.about.com/library/weekly/aa011201a.htm