700 BC
| Millennium: | 1st millennium BC |
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| 700 BC by topic |
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| Gregorian calendar | 700 BC DCC BC |
| Ab urbe condita | 54 |
| Ancient Egypt era | XXV dynasty, 53 |
| - Pharaoh | Shebitku, 8 |
| Ancient Greek era | 20th Olympiad (victor)¹ |
| Assyrian calendar | 4051 |
| Balinese saka calendar | N/A |
| Bengali calendar | −1292 |
| Berber calendar | 251 |
| Buddhist calendar | −155 |
| Burmese calendar | −1337 |
| Byzantine calendar | 4809–4810 |
| Chinese calendar | 庚辰年 (Metal Dragon) 1998 or 1791 — to — 辛巳年 (Metal Snake) 1999 or 1792 |
| Coptic calendar | −983 – −982 |
| Discordian calendar | 467 |
| Ethiopian calendar | −707 – −706 |
| Hebrew calendar | 3061–3062 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | −643 – −642 |
| - Shaka Samvat | N/A |
| - Kali Yuga | 2401–2402 |
| Holocene calendar | 9301 |
| Iranian calendar | 1321 BP – 1320 BP |
| Islamic calendar | 1362 BH – 1361 BH |
| Javanese calendar | N/A |
| Julian calendar | N/A |
| Korean calendar | 1634 |
| Minguo calendar | 2611 before ROC 民前2611年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | −2167 |
| Thai solar calendar | −157 – −156 |
| Tibetan calendar | 阳金龙年 (male Iron-Dragon) −573 or −954 or −1726 — to — 阴金蛇年 (female Iron-Snake) −572 or −953 or −1725 |
The year 700 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. In the Roman Empire, it was known as year 54 Ab urbe condita . The denomination 700 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 and trends
[edit]By place
[edit]Africa
[edit]- Construction of the Temple of Yeha in Ethiopia (approximate date.)[1]
Europe
[edit]- Founding of Poseidonia by the Dorians[2] as a colony of Sybaris.[3]
Middle East
[edit]- Assyrian king Sennacherib launches another campaign into the Chaldean region, where the Babylonian rebel Merodach-Baladan II has been conspiring against him. Merodach-Baladan takes refuge in Elam, north of the Persian Gulf.[4]
- Babylon's Assyrian-raised puppet king Bel-ibni is deposed after a 3-year reign and sent into exile.[5] He is replaced by Sennacherib's son, Ashur-nadin-shumi.[6][7]
By topic
[edit]Agriculture
[edit]- China's minister of agriculture teaches the peasants crop rotation. He also teaches them to dig drainage ditches, rents them farm equipment, and stores grain surpluses to provide free food in time of famine (approximate date).[citation needed]
- Laws against animal slaughter are relaxed in India (approximate date.)[citation needed]
Environment
[edit]- Cities developing in the Near East build aqueducts to keep their residents supplied with water (approximate date).[8]
Sport
[edit]- Atheradas of Laconia wins the stadion race at the 20th Olympic Games.[9]
Significant People
[edit]Births
[edit]- Mentuemhat, Egyptian government official.[10]
Deaths
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Manzo, Andrea; Zazzaro, Chiara; Falco, Diana Joyce De (2018-11-26). Stories of Globalisation: The Red Sea and the Persian Gulf from Late Prehistory to Early Modernity: Selected Papers of Red Sea Project VII. BRILL. ISBN 978-90-04-36232-1.
- ^ Solinus, Gaius Julius. "The Polyhistor". topostext.org (English translation by Arwen Apps (from her PhD diss., Macquarie University, 2011)). Retrieved 2023-06-23.
- ^ Bickerman, E. J. (Elias Joseph) (1968). Chronology of the ancient world. Internet Archive. Ithaca, N.Y., Cornell University Press.
- ^ Glassner, Jean-Jacques; Foster, Benjamin Benjamin Read (2005). Mesopotamian Chronicles. BRILL. ISBN 978-90-04-13084-5.
- ^ Grayson, Albert Kirk (2000). Assyrian and Babylonian Chronicles. Eisenbrauns. p. 77. ISBN 978-1-57506-049-1.
- ^ Leick, Gwendolyn (2003). The Babylonians: An Introduction. Psychology Press. ISBN 978-0-415-25314-7.
- ^ Mattingly, Harold (1914). Outlines of Ancient History: From The Earliest Times To The Fall Of The Roman Empire In The West, Ad 476. Cambridge University Press. p. 8.
- ^ Beeson, Geoff (2020-02-03). A Water Story: Learning from the Past, Planning for the Future. Csiro Publishing. ISBN 978-1-4863-1130-9.
- ^ "Eusebius: Chronicle (2) - translation". www.attalus.org. Retrieved 2023-06-23.
- ^ Bierbrier, M. L. (2022-11-30). Historical Dictionary of Ancient Egypt. Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 978-1-5381-5750-3.
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