626 BC

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* 8th century BC
* 7th century BC
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* 640s BC
* 630s BC
* 620s BC
* 610s BC
* 600s BC

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* 629 BC
* 628 BC
* 627 BC
* 626 BC
* 625 BC
* 624 BC
* 623 BC

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626 BC in various calendarsGregorian calendar| 626 BC
DCXXVI BC

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Ab urbe condita| 128
Ancient Egypt era| XXVI dynasty, 39
\- Pharaoh| Psamtik I, 39
Ancient Greek Olympiad (summer)| 38th Olympiad, year 3
Assyrian calendar| 4125
Balinese saka calendar| N/A
Bengali calendar| −1219 – −1218
Berber calendar| 325
Buddhist calendar| −81
Burmese calendar| −1263
Byzantine calendar| 4883–4884
Chinese calendar| 甲午年 (Wood Horse)
2072 or 1865
— to —
乙未年 (Wood Goat)
2073 or 1866
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
Tibetan calendar| ཤིང་ཕོ་རྟ་ལོ་
(male Wood-Horse)
−499 or −880 or −1652
— to —
ཤིང་མོ་ལུག་ལོ་
(female Wood-Sheep)
−498 or −879 or −1651

The year 626 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. In the Roman Empire, it was known as year 128 Ab urbe condita . The denomination 626 BC for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

## Events

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

## Births

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Habakkuk (approximate date)

## Deaths

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

## References

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

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