696 BC

Millennium:	1st millennium BC
Centuries:	8th century BC – 7th century BC – 6th century BC
Decades:	720s BC  710s BC  700s BC  – 690s BC –  680s BC  670s BC  660s BC
Years:	699 BC 698 BC 697 BC – 696 BC – 695 BC 694 BC 693 BC

696 BC in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	696 BC
Ab urbe condita	58
Ancient Egypt era	XXV dynasty, 57
- Pharaoh	Shebitku, 12
Ancient Greek era	21st Olympiad (victor)¹
Assyrian calendar	4055
Bengali calendar	−1288
Berber calendar	255
Buddhist calendar	−151
Burmese calendar	−1333
Byzantine calendar	4813–4814
Chinese calendar	甲申年 (Wood Monkey) 2001 or 1941     — to — 乙酉年 (Wood Rooster) 2002 or 1942
Coptic calendar	−979 – −978
Discordian calendar	471
Ethiopian calendar	−703 – −702
Hebrew calendar	3065–3066
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	−639 – −638
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	2406–2407
Holocene calendar	9305
Iranian calendar	1317 BP – 1316 BP
Islamic calendar	1357 BH – 1356 BH
Julian calendar	N/A
Korean calendar	1638
Minguo calendar	2607 before ROC 民前2607年
Thai solar calendar	−153 – −152

Events

By place

Europe

• Cimmerian forces begin a conquest of Phrygia (modern Turkey). Having failed in their efforts to defeat the Assyrians and moved into Anatolia. Possible migration of the Armenians (approximate date).

Asia

• Zhou Zhuang Wang becomes king of the Zhou Dynasty of China.

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