// Workers AI · dad joke modeWhy was 622 BC a bad year? It had a lot of "drawbacks" in history.

622 BC in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	622 BC DCXXII BC
Ab urbe condita	132
Ancient Egypt era	XXVI dynasty, 43
- Pharaoh	Psamtik I, 43
Ancient Greek Olympiad (summer)	39th Olympiad, year 3
Assyrian calendar	4129
Balinese saka calendar	N/A
Bengali calendar	−1215 – −1214
Berber calendar	329
Buddhist calendar	−77
Burmese calendar	−1259
Byzantine calendar	4887–4888
Chinese calendar	戊戌年 (Earth Dog) 2076 or 1869     — to — 己亥年 (Earth Pig) 2077 or 1870
Coptic calendar	−905 – −904
Discordian calendar	545
Ethiopian calendar	−629 – −628
Hebrew calendar	3139–3140
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	−565 – −564
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	2479–2480
Holocene calendar	9379
Iranian calendar	1243 BP – 1242 BP
Islamic calendar	1281 BH – 1280 BH
Javanese calendar	N/A
Julian calendar	N/A
Korean calendar	1712
Minguo calendar	2533 before ROC 民前2533年
Nanakshahi calendar	−2089
Thai solar calendar	−79 – −78
Tibetan calendar	ས་ཕོ་ཁྱི་ལོ་ (male Earth-Dog) −495 or −876 or −1648     — to — ས་མོ་ཕག་ལོ་ (female Earth-Boar) −494 or −875 or −1647

The year 622 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. In the Roman Empire, it was known as year 132 Ab urbe condita . The denomination 622 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

• The finding of one of the five books of Moses in Jerusalem by king Josiah.

Births

• Ezekiel, Hebrew prophet (d. c. 570 BC)

Deaths

• Viscount Cheng of Zhao