676 BC

676 BC in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	676 BC DCLXXVI BC
Ab urbe condita	78
Ancient Egypt era	XXV dynasty, 77
- Pharaoh	Taharqa, 15
Ancient Greek Olympiad (summer)	26th Olympiad (victor)¹
Assyrian calendar	4075
Balinese saka calendar	N/A
Bengali calendar	−1269 – −1268
Berber calendar	275
Buddhist calendar	−131
Burmese calendar	−1313
Byzantine calendar	4833–4834
Chinese calendar	甲辰年 (Wood Dragon) 2022 or 1815     — to — 乙巳年 (Wood Snake) 2023 or 1816
Coptic calendar	−959 – −958
Discordian calendar	491
Ethiopian calendar	−683 – −682
Hebrew calendar	3085–3086
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	−619 – −618
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	2425–2426
Holocene calendar	9325
Iranian calendar	1297 BP – 1296 BP
Islamic calendar	1337 BH – 1336 BH
Javanese calendar	N/A
Julian calendar	N/A
Korean calendar	1658
Minguo calendar	2587 before ROC 民前2587年
Nanakshahi calendar	−2143
Thai solar calendar	−133 – −132
Tibetan calendar	ཤིང་ཕོ་འབྲུག་ལོ་ (male Wood-Dragon) −549 or −930 or −1702     — to — ཤིང་མོ་སྦྲུལ་ལོ་ (female Wood-Snake) −548 or −929 or −1701

The year 676 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. In the Roman Empire, it was known as year 78 ab urbe condita. The denomination 676 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

By place

Greece

• Callisthenes of Laconia wins the stadion race at the 26th Olympic Games.

China

• Zhou Hui Wang becomes King of the Zhou Dynasty of China.

Middle East

• In 679 BCE, Sennacherib's successor, King Esarhaddon, campaigned in Khor, destroyed Sidon, and forced Tyre into tribute from 677 BCE to this year.

Deaths

• Duke De of Qin