Key facts
- Gregorian calendar
- 659 BC, DCLIX BC
- Ancient egypt era
- XXVI dynasty , 6
- Pharaoh
- Psamtik I , 6
- Ancient greek olympiad summer
- 30th Olympiad , year 2
- Balinese saka calendar
- N/A
- Bengali calendar
- −1252 – −1251
- Buddhist calendar
- −114
- Burmese calendar
- −1296
- Byzantine calendar
- 4850–4851
- Chinese calendar
- 辛酉 年 (Metal Rooster ), 2039 or 1832, — to — , 壬戌年 (Water Dog ), 2040 or 1833
- Coptic calendar
- −942 – −941
- Ethiopian calendar
- −666 – −665
- Hebrew calendar
- 3102–3103
- Vikram samvat
- −602 – −601
- Shaka samvat
- N/A
- Kali yuga
- 2442–2443
- Iranian calendar
- 1280 BP – 1279 BP
- Islamic calendar
- 1319 BH – 1318 BH
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
The year 659 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. In the Roman Empire, it was known as year 95 Ab urbe condita . The denomination 659 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
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “659 BC” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.