688 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:	691 BC 690 BC 689 BC – 688 BC – 687 BC 686 BC 685 BC

688 BC in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	688 BC
Ab urbe condita	66
Ancient Egypt era	XXV dynasty, 65
- Pharaoh	Taharqa, 3
Ancient Greek era	23rd Olympiad (victor)¹
Assyrian calendar	4063
Bengali calendar	−1280
Berber calendar	263
Buddhist calendar	−143
Burmese calendar	−1325
Byzantine calendar	4821–4822
Chinese calendar	壬辰年 (Water Dragon) 2009 or 1949     — to — 癸巳年 (Water Snake) 2010 or 1950
Coptic calendar	−971 – −970
Discordian calendar	479
Ethiopian calendar	−695 – −694
Hebrew calendar	3073–3074
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	−631 – −630
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	2414–2415
Holocene calendar	9313
Iranian calendar	1309 BP – 1308 BP
Islamic calendar	1349 BH – 1348 BH
Julian calendar	N/A
Korean calendar	1646
Minguo calendar	2599 before ROC 民前2599年
Thai solar calendar	−145 – −144

Olympia in ancient Greece (7th century BC)

Events

By place

Europe

• Traditional date for the founding of Gela in Sicily by colonists from Rhodes and Crete.^[1]

By topic

Sports

• Greece's 23rd Olympiad is held at Olympia; boxing is added to the Olympic Games that are more and more intended as preparation for war.

References

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