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Also known as 624 BCE

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AI overview

624 BC was a year in the ancient world when various civilizations were developing and changing. Without additional historical context about specific events from that year, it's difficult to explain its particular significance, though it falls within periods of importance for ancient Mesopotamian, Egyptian, Greek, and other cultures.

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Key facts

Gregorian calendar
624 BC, DCXXIV BC
Ancient egypt era
XXVI dynasty , 41
Pharaoh
Psamtik I , 41
Ancient greek olympiad summer
39th Olympiad ( victor )¹
Balinese saka calendar
N/A
Bengali calendar
−1217 – −1216
Buddhist calendar
−79
Burmese calendar
−1261
Byzantine calendar
4885–4886
Chinese calendar
丙申 年 (Fire Monkey ), 2074 or 1867, — to — , 丁酉年 (Fire Rooster ), 2075 or 1868
Coptic calendar
−907 – −906
Ethiopian calendar
−631 – −630
Hebrew calendar
3137–3138
Vikram samvat
−567 – −566
Shaka samvat
N/A
Kali yuga
2477–2478
Iranian calendar
1245 BP – 1244 BP
Islamic calendar
1283 BH – 1282 BH

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Encyclopedic overview

The year 624 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. In the Roman Empire, it was known as year 130 Ab urbe condita . The denomination 624 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.

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Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “624 BC” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.