598 BC

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598 BC in various calendars
Gregorian calendar 598 BC
DXCVIII BC
Ab urbe condita 156
Ancient Egypt era XXVI dynasty, 67
- Pharaoh Necho II, 13
Ancient Greek era 45th Olympiad, year 3
Assyrian calendar 4153
Balinese saka calendar N/A
Bengali calendar −1190
Berber calendar 353
Buddhist calendar −53
Burmese calendar −1235
Byzantine calendar 4911–4912
Chinese calendar 壬戌年 (Water  Dog)
2100 or 1893
     to 
癸亥年 (Water  Pig)
2101 or 1894
Coptic calendar −881 – −880
Discordian calendar 569
Ethiopian calendar −605 – −604
Hebrew calendar 3163–3164
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat −541 – −540
 - Shaka Samvat N/A
 - Kali Yuga 2503–2504
Holocene calendar 9403
Iranian calendar 1219 BP – 1218 BP
Islamic calendar 1256 BH – 1255 BH
Javanese calendar N/A
Julian calendar N/A
Korean calendar 1736
Minguo calendar 2509 before ROC
民前2509年
Nanakshahi calendar −2065
Thai solar calendar −55 – −54
Tibetan calendar 阳水狗年
(male Water-Dog)
−471 or −852 or −1624
     to 
阴水猪年
(female Water-Pig)
−470 or −851 or −1623

The year 598 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. In the Roman Empire, it was known as year 156 Ab urbe condita . The denomination 598 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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References

  1. E.J. Bickerman, Chronology of the Ancient World (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1968), p. 198