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Also known as 638 BCE

year

Key facts

Gregorian calendar
638 BC, DCXXXVIII BC
Ancient egypt era
XXVI dynasty , 27
Pharaoh
Psamtik I , 27
Ancient greek olympiad summer
35th Olympiad , year 3
Balinese saka calendar
N/A
Bengali calendar
−1231 – −1230
Buddhist calendar
−93
Burmese calendar
−1275
Byzantine calendar
4871–4872
Chinese calendar
壬午 年 (Water Horse ), 2060 or 1853, — to — , 癸未年 (Water Goat ), 2061 or 1854
Coptic calendar
−921 – −920
Ethiopian calendar
−645 – −644
Hebrew calendar
3123–3124
Vikram samvat
−581 – −580
Shaka samvat
N/A
Kali yuga
2463–2464
Iranian calendar
1259 BP – 1258 BP
Islamic calendar
1298 BH – 1297 BH

via Wikipedia infobox

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Encyclopedic overview

The year 638 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. In the Roman Empire, it was known as year 116 Ab urbe condita . The denomination 638 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 “638 BC” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.