670 BC
| Years |
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| Millennium |
| 1st millennium BC |
| Centuries |
| Decades |
| Years |
| 670 BC by topic |
| Politics |
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| Categories |
| Gregorian calendar | 670 BC DCLXX BC |
|---|---|
| Ab urbe condita | 84 |
| Ancient Egypt era | XXV dynasty, 83 |
| - Pharaoh | Taharqa, 21 |
| Ancient Greek Olympiad (summer) | 27th Olympiad, year 3 |
| Assyrian calendar | 4081 |
| Balinese saka calendar | N/A |
| Bengali calendar | −1263 – −1262 |
| Berber calendar | 281 |
| Buddhist calendar | −125 |
| Burmese calendar | −1307 |
| Byzantine calendar | 4839–4840 |
| Chinese calendar | 庚戌年 (Metal Dog) 2028 or 1821 — to — 辛亥年 (Metal Pig) 2029 or 1822 |
| Coptic calendar | −953 – −952 |
| Discordian calendar | 497 |
| Ethiopian calendar | −677 – −676 |
| Hebrew calendar | 3091–3092 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | −613 – −612 |
| - Shaka Samvat | N/A |
| - Kali Yuga | 2431–2432 |
| Holocene calendar | 9331 |
| Iranian calendar | 1291 BP – 1290 BP |
| Islamic calendar | 1331 BH – 1330 BH |
| Javanese calendar | N/A |
| Julian calendar | N/A |
| Korean calendar | 1664 |
| Minguo calendar | 2581 before ROC 民前2581年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | −2137 |
| Thai solar calendar | −127 – −126 |
| Tibetan calendar | ལྕགས་ཕོ་ཁྱི་ལོ་ (male Iron-Dog) −543 or −924 or −1696 — to — ལྕགས་མོ་ཕག་ལོ་ (female Iron-Boar) −542 or −923 or −1695 |
The year 670 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. In the Roman Empire, it was known as year 84 Ab urbe condita. The denomination 670 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
- King Gyges of Lydia's name is minted on the first Greek coins.[1][2][3][4]
- Miletus begins establishing colonies in the Black Sea and Mediterranean Sea.[5][6][7][8][9][10]
Deaths
- Mettius Fufetius, Latin king of Alba Longa
- Oracle of Nusku
References
- ^ Dale, Alexander (2015). "WALWET and KUKALIM: Lydian coin legends, dynastic succession, and the chronology of Mermnad kings". Kadmos. 54: 151–166. doi:10.1515/kadmos-2015-0008. S2CID 165043567. Retrieved 10 November 2021.
- ^ Browne, Gerald M. (2000). "A New Lydian Text". Kadmos. 39 (1–2): 177–178. doi:10.1515/kadm.2000.39.1-2.177. S2CID 161165986. Retrieved 13 November 2021.
- ^ Browne, Gerald M. (2000). "The Tomb of Alyattes?". Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik. 132: 172. JSTOR 20190706. Retrieved 13 November 2021.
- ^ Bianconi, Michele (2021). Linguistic and Cultural Interactions between Greece and Anatolia: In Search of the Golden Fleece. Leiden: Brill Publishers. pp. 119–120. ISBN 978-9-004-46159-8.
- ^ Greaves, Alan M., ed. (2002). Miletos: a history. London New York: Routledge. ISBN 978-0-203-99393-4.
- ^ Greaves, Alan M. Miletos: A History. Routledge, 2002, pp. 74–78.
- ^ Knight, John Brendan. The proactive and reactive stimuli of Archaic Milesian colonization in the Black Sea before 494 B.C.E. The Open University, 2012, pp. 27–43.
- ^ Sacks, David. Encyclopedia of the Ancient Greek World. Facts on File, 2005, p. 97.
- ^ Greaves, Alan M. Miletos: A History. Routledge, 2002, pp. 104–107.
- ^ Wilkinson, Toby C., and Anja Slawisch. "An Agro-Pastoral Palimpsest: New Insights into the Historical Rural Economy of the Milesian Peninsula." Anatolian Studies, vol. 70, 2020, pp. 1–26.