626 BC

Millennium:	1st millennium BC
Centuries:	8th century BC · 7th century BC · 6th century BC
Decades:	650s BC · 640s BC · 630s BC · 620s BC · 610s BC · 600s BC · 590s BC
Years:	629 BC · 628 BC · 627 BC · 626 BC · 625 BC · 624 BC · 623 BC

626 BC in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	626 BC DCXXV BC
Ab urbe condita	128
Ancient Egypt era	XXVI dynasty, 39
- Pharaoh	Psamtik I, 39
Ancient Greek era	38th Olympiad, year 3
Assyrian calendar	4125
Bengali calendar	−1218
Berber calendar	325
Buddhist calendar	−81
Burmese calendar	−1263
Byzantine calendar	4883–4884
Chinese calendar	甲午年 (Wood Horse) 2071 or 2011     — to — 乙未年 (Wood Goat) 2072 or 2012
Coptic calendar	−909 – −908
Discordian calendar	541
Ethiopian calendar	−633 – −632
Hebrew calendar	3135–3136
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	−569 – −568
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	2475–2476
Holocene calendar	9375
Iranian calendar	1247 BP – 1246 BP
Islamic calendar	1285 BH – 1284 BH
Javanese calendar	N/A
Julian calendar	N/A
Korean calendar	1708
Minguo calendar	2537 before ROC 民前2537年
Nanakshahi calendar	−2093
Thai solar calendar	−83 – −82

Events

• Jeremiah begins his ministry in the Kingdom of Judah.
• 23 November -- Nabopolassar revolts against his Assyrian overlords, establishing the Neo-Babylonian Empire.^[1]

Deaths

• King Cheng of Chu, king of the state of Chu

References

1. Date based on the Babylonian computation. E.J. Bickerman, Chronology of the Ancient World (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1968), p. 157