678 BC
Calendar year
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The year 678 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. In the Roman Empire, it was known as year 76 Ab urbe condita . The denomination 678 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.
| Gregorian calendar | 678 BC DCLXXVIII BC |
| Ab urbe condita | 76 |
| Ancient Egypt era | XXV dynasty, 75 |
| - Pharaoh | Taharqa, 13 |
| Ancient Greek Olympiad (summer) | 25th Olympiad, year 3 |
| Assyrian calendar | 4073 |
| Balinese saka calendar | N/A |
| Bengali calendar | −1271 – −1270 |
| Berber calendar | 273 |
| Buddhist calendar | −133 |
| Burmese calendar | −1315 |
| Byzantine calendar | 4831–4832 |
| Chinese calendar | 壬寅年 (Water Tiger) 2020 or 1813 — to — 癸卯年 (Water Rabbit) 2021 or 1814 |
| Coptic calendar | −961 – −960 |
| Discordian calendar | 489 |
| Ethiopian calendar | −685 – −684 |
| Hebrew calendar | 3083–3084 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | −621 – −620 |
| - Shaka Samvat | N/A |
| - Kali Yuga | 2423–2424 |
| Holocene calendar | 9323 |
| Iranian calendar | 1299 BP – 1298 BP |
| Islamic calendar | 1339 BH – 1338 BH |
| Javanese calendar | N/A |
| Julian calendar | N/A |
| Korean calendar | 1656 |
| Minguo calendar | 2589 before ROC 民前2589年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | −2145 |
| Thai solar calendar | −135 – −134 |
| Tibetan calendar | ཆུ་ཕོ་སྟག་ལོ་ (male Water-Tiger) −551 or −932 or −1704 — to — ཆུ་མོ་ཡོས་ལོ་ (female Water-Hare) −550 or −931 or −1703 |
Events
- Phraortes becomes king of the Medes (according to the chronology proposed by Igor Diakonoff)[1]
- Chu soldiers invade Zheng (according to the Zuo Zhuan)[2]
- King Wen of Chu conquers the state of Deng.
- King Xi of Zhou used his royal clout to give legitimacy to Wu of Quwo as the rightful duke of Jin[3]
- The state of Jin became the first to maintain a standing army[4]
- Jin–Quwo wars end (739–678 BCE), dynastic struggles between two branches of Jin's ruling house[5]
- Kaštaritu is mentioned as "King of the Medes" in an inscription[6]
- According to Herodotus, Ecbatana was chosen as the Medes' capital by Deioces, the first ruler of the Medes.
- Deioces united the Median tribes of Media and made the first Iranian Empire.
November
- Two solar eclipses occur on the 1st and the 30th[7]
Deaths
- approximate date of death of Perdiccas I, king of Macedon
- Min, Marquis of Jin[8]
- Duke Wu of Qin, ruler of the state of Qin, had 66 people sacrificed and buried with him[9][10]
