685 BC

The year 685 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. In the Roman Empire, it was known as year 69 Ab urbe condita. The denomination 685 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.

Millennium:	1st millennium BC
Centuries:	8th century BC 7th century BC 6th century BC
Decades:	700s BC 690s BC 680s BC 670s BC 660s BC
Years:	688 BC 687 BC 686 BC 685 BC 684 BC 683 BC 682 BC

685 BC in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	685 BC DCLXXXV BC
Ab urbe condita	69
Ancient Egypt era	XXV dynasty, 68
- Pharaoh	Taharqa, 6
Ancient Greek era	23rd Olympiad, year 4
Assyrian calendar	4066
Balinese saka calendar	N/A
Bengali calendar	−1277
Berber calendar	266
Buddhist calendar	−140
Burmese calendar	−1322
Byzantine calendar	4824–4825
Chinese calendar	乙未年 (Wood Goat) 2013 or 1806     — to — 丙申年 (Fire Monkey) 2014 or 1807
Coptic calendar	−968 – −967
Discordian calendar	482
Ethiopian calendar	−692 – −691
Hebrew calendar	3076–3077
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	−628 – −627
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	2416–2417
Holocene calendar	9316
Iranian calendar	1306 BP – 1305 BP
Islamic calendar	1346 BH – 1345 BH
Javanese calendar	N/A
Julian calendar	N/A
Korean calendar	1649
Minguo calendar	2596 before ROC 民前2596年
Nanakshahi calendar	−2152
Thai solar calendar	−142 – −141
Tibetan calendar	阴木羊年 (female Wood-Goat) −558 or −939 or −1711     — to — 阳火猴年 (male Fire-Monkey) −557 or −938 or −1710

Events and trends

By place

Mediterranean

• Traditional date of the foundation of Chalcedon by Megara.^[1]

Significant People

Births

• Ashurbanipal, king of Assyria (d. c. 627 BC)

Deaths

References

1. E.J. Bickerman, Chronology of the Ancient World (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1968), p. 197