669 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:	672 BC 671 BC 670 BC – 669 BC – 668 BC 667 BC 666 BC

669 BC in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	669 BC DCLXVIII BC
Ab urbe condita	85
Ancient Egypt era	XXV dynasty, 84
- Pharaoh	Taharqa, 22
Ancient Greek era	27th Olympiad, year 4
Assyrian calendar	4082
Bengali calendar	−1261
Berber calendar	282
Buddhist calendar	−124
Burmese calendar	−1306
Byzantine calendar	4840–4841
Chinese calendar	辛亥年 (Metal Pig) 2028 or 1968     — to — 壬子年 (Water Rat) 2029 or 1969
Coptic calendar	−952 – −951
Discordian calendar	498
Ethiopian calendar	−676 – −675
Hebrew calendar	3092–3093
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	−612 – −611
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	2433–2434
Holocene calendar	9332
Iranian calendar	1290 BP – 1289 BP
Islamic calendar	1330 BH – 1329 BH
Julian calendar	N/A
Korean calendar	1665
Minguo calendar	2580 before ROC 民前2580年
Thai solar calendar	−126 – −125

Events

• Taharqa, king of Kush, invades and reconquers Egypt from the Assyrian Empire.
• Esarhaddon dies in Harran while on his way to recover Egypt from the Kushites.
• A transit of Venus occurs.

Deaths

• Esarhaddon, king of Assyria

References