678 BC
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| Gregorian calendar | 678 BC DCLXXVII BC |
| Ab urbe condita | 76 |
| Ancient Egypt era | XXV dynasty, 75 |
| - Pharaoh | Taharqa, 13 |
| Ancient Greek era | 25th Olympiad, year 3 |
| Assyrian calendar | 4073 |
| Balinese saka calendar | N/A |
| Bengali calendar | −1270 |
| Berber calendar | 273 |
| Buddhist calendar | −133 |
| Burmese calendar | −1315 |
| Byzantine calendar | 4831–4832 |
| Chinese calendar | 壬寅年 (Water Tiger) 2019 or 1959 — to — 癸卯年 (Water Rabbit) 2020 or 1960 |
| Coptic calendar | −961 – −960 |
| Discordian calendar | 489 |
| Ethiopian calendar | −685 – −684 |
| Hebrew calendar | 3083–3084 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | −621 – −620 |
| - Shaka Samvat | N/A |
| - Kali Yuga | 2423–2424 |
| Holocene calendar | 9323 |
| Iranian calendar | 1299 BP – 1298 BP |
| Islamic calendar | 1339 BH – 1338 BH |
| Javanese calendar | N/A |
| Julian calendar | N/A |
| Korean calendar | 1656 |
| Minguo calendar | 2589 before ROC 民前2589年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | −2145 |
| Thai solar calendar | −135 – −134 |
| Tibetan calendar | 阳水虎年 (male Water-Tiger) −551 or −932 or −1704 — to — 阴水兔年 (female Water-Rabbit) −550 or −931 or −1703 |
The year 678 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. In the Roman Empire, it was known as year 76 Ab urbe condita . The denomination 678 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
- Phraortes becomes king of the Medes (according to the chronology proposed by Igor Diakonoff)[1]
- Chu soldiers invade Zheng (according to the Zuo Zhuan)[2]
- King Wen of Chu conquers the state of Deng.
- King Xi of Zhou used his royal clout to give legitimacy to Wu of Quwo as the rightful duke of Jin[3]
- The state of Jin became the first to maintain a standing army[4]
- Jin–Quwo wars end (739–678 BCE), dynastic struggles between two branches of Jin's ruling house[5]
- Kaštaritu is mentioned as "King of the Medes" in an inscription[6]
- According to Herodotus, Ecbatana was chosen as the Medes' capital by Deioces, the first ruler of the Medes.
- Deioces united the Median tribes of Media and made the first Iranian Empire.[7][8]
- Chu had conquered most of the Nanyang Basin
- Nekauba becomes pharaoh of the twenty-sixth dynasty of Egypt[9]
November
- Two solar eclipses occur on the 1st and the 30th over the Penzhina Bay and the South Pacific Ocean respectively.[10]
Deaths
- approximate date of death of Perdiccas I, king of Macedon
- Min, Marquis of Jin[11]
- Duke Wu of Qin, ruler of the state of Qin, had 66 people sacrificed and buried with him[12][13]
- Deioces[14]
References
- ↑ Medvedskaya, Inna N.; Dandamayev, Muhammad A. (2006). "MEDIA". In Yarshater, Ehsan. Encyclopædia Iranica, Online Edition. New York: Encyclopædia Iranica Foundation. Retrieved 15 November 2025.
- ↑ Zhao, Dingxin (2015-09-22). The Confucian-Legalist State: A New Theory of Chinese History. Oxford University Press. p. 118. ISBN 978-0-19-046361-8. Search this book on
- ↑ Blakeley, Barry B. (1979), "Functional disparities in the socio-political traditions of Spring and Autumn China: Part III: Ch'u and Chin", Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient, 22 (1): 81–118, doi:10.2307/3632147, JSTOR 3632147
- ↑ Zhao, Dingxin (2015-10-16). The Confucian-Legalist State: A New Theory of Chinese History: A New Theory of Chinese History. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-935174-9. Search this book on
- ↑ Dillon, Michael (2016). Encyclopedia of Chinese History. Abingdon: Routledge. p. 872. ISBN 9781317817161. Retrieved 5 December 2022. Search this book on
- ↑ Howorth, Henry H. (16 April 1892), "The Beginnings of Persian History", The Academy, London, XLI, retrieved 8 June 2015
- ↑ https://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/media/
- ↑ https://nerd.wwnorton.com/ebooks/epub/thewestv1/EPUB/content/chapter-01-3.xhtml#:~:text=The%20Median%20and%20Persian%20Empires,any%20other%20power%20before%20it.
- ↑ Priese, Karl-Heinz. Der Beginn der Kuschitischen Herrschaft in Ägypten, ZÄS 98 (1970), pp. 16–32.
- ↑ "Catalog of Solar Eclipses: −0699 to −0600". NASA. Archived from the original on March 22, 2019. Retrieved December 15, 2019. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Sima, Qian. "House of Jin". Records of the Grand Historian. 39. Search this book on
- ↑ Sima Qian. 秦本纪 [Annals of Qin]. Records of the Grand Historian (in Chinese). guoxue.com. Retrieved 1 May 2012.CS1 maint: Unrecognized language (link)
- ↑ Han, Zhaoqi (2010). "Annals of Qin". Annotated Shiji (in Chinese). Zhonghua Book Company. pp. 356–362. ISBN 978-7-101-07272-3.CS1 maint: Unrecognized language (link) Search this book on
- ↑ Diakonoff. The Median History. Search this book on
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