657 BC

Millennium: 1st millennium BC
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
657 BC in various calendars
Gregorian calendar657 BC
DCLVI BC
Ab urbe condita97
Ancient Egypt eraXXVI dynasty, 8
- PharaohPsamtik I, 8
Ancient Greek era30th Olympiad, year 4
Assyrian calendar4094
Balinese saka calendarN/A
Bengali calendar−1249
Berber calendar294
Buddhist calendar−112
Burmese calendar−1294
Byzantine calendar4852–4853
Chinese calendar癸亥(Water Pig)
2040 or 1980
     to 
甲子年 (Wood Rat)
2041 or 1981
Coptic calendar−940 – −939
Discordian calendar510
Ethiopian calendar−664 – −663
Hebrew calendar3104–3105
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat−600 – −599
 - Shaka SamvatN/A
 - Kali Yuga2444–2445
Holocene calendar9344
Iranian calendar1278 BP – 1277 BP
Islamic calendar1317 BH – 1316 BH
Javanese calendarN/A
Julian calendarN/A
Korean calendar1677
Minguo calendar2568 before ROC
民前2568年
Nanakshahi calendar−2124
Thai solar calendar−114 – −113
Tibetan calendar阴水猪年
(female Water-Pig)
−530 or −911 or −1683
     to 
阳木鼠年
(male Wood-Rat)
−529 or −910 or −1682

Events

Asia Minor

  • King Gyges of Lydia establishes a state monopoly in metal coinage, making it illegal for individuals to issue the bean-shaped lumps of electrum used as a medium of exchange in place of commodities (approximate date).

Greece

China

References


    This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.