657 BC

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657 BC in various calendars
Gregorian calendar 657 BC
DCLVI BC
Ab urbe condita 97
Ancient Egypt era XXVI dynasty, 8
- Pharaoh Psamtik I, 8
Ancient Greek era 30th Olympiad, year 4
Assyrian calendar 4094
Balinese saka calendar N/A
Bengali calendar −1249
Berber calendar 294
Buddhist calendar −112
Burmese calendar −1294
Byzantine calendar 4852–4853
Chinese calendar 癸亥(Water  Pig)
2040 or 1980
     to 
甲子年 (Wood  Rat)
2041 or 1981
Coptic calendar −940 – −939
Discordian calendar 510
Ethiopian calendar −664 – −663
Hebrew calendar 3104–3105
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat −600 – −599
 - Shaka Samvat N/A
 - Kali Yuga 2444–2445
Holocene calendar 9344
Iranian calendar 1278 BP – 1277 BP
Islamic calendar 1317 BH – 1316 BH
Javanese calendar N/A
Julian calendar N/A
Korean calendar 1677
Minguo calendar 2568 before ROC
民前2568年
Nanakshahi calendar −2124
Thai solar calendar −114 – −113
Tibetan calendar 阴水猪年
(female Water-Pig)
−530 or −911 or −1683
     to 
阳木鼠年
(male Wood-Rat)
−529 or −910 or −1682

The year 657 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. In the Roman Empire, it was known as year 97 Ab urbe condita . The denomination 657 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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Asia Minor

  • King Gyges of Lydia establishes a state monopoly in metal coinage, making it illegal for individuals to issue the bean-shaped lumps of electrum used as a medium of exchange in place of commodities (approximate date).

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