685 BC

Millennium:	1st millennium BC
Centuries:	8th century BC – 7th century BC – 6th century BC
Decades:	710s BC  700s BC  690s BC  – 680s BC –  670s BC  660s BC  650s BC
Years:	688 BC 687 BC 686 BC – 685 BC – 684 BC 683 BC 682 BC

685 BC in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	685 BC
Ab urbe condita	69
Ancient Egypt era	XXV dynasty, 68
- Pharaoh	Taharqa, 6
Ancient Greek era	23rd Olympiad, year 4
Assyrian calendar	4066
Bengali calendar	−1277
Berber calendar	266
Buddhist calendar	−140
Burmese calendar	−1322
Byzantine calendar	4824–4825
Chinese calendar	乙未年 (Wood Goat) 2012 or 1952     — to — 丙申年 (Fire Monkey) 2013 or 1953
Coptic calendar	−968 – −967
Discordian calendar	482
Ethiopian calendar	−692 – −691
Hebrew calendar	3076–3077
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	−628 – −627
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	2417–2418
Holocene calendar	9316
Iranian calendar	1306 BP – 1305 BP
Islamic calendar	1346 BH – 1345 BH
Julian calendar	N/A
Korean calendar	1649
Minguo calendar	2596 before ROC 民前2596年
Thai solar calendar	−142 – −141

Events

By place

Mediterranean

• Traditional date of the foundation of Chalcedon by Megara.^[1]

Births

• Ashurbanipal, king of Assyria (d. c. 627 BC)

References

1. E.J. Bickerman, Chronology of the Ancient World (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1968), p. 197