688 BC

Millennium:	1st millennium BC
Centuries:	8th century BC 7th century BC 6th century BC
Decades:	700s BC 690s BC 680s BC 670s BC 660s BC
Years:	691 BC 690 BC 689 BC 688 BC 687 BC 686 BC 685 BC

688 BC in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	688 BC DCLXXXVIII BC
Ab urbe condita	66
Ancient Egypt era	XXV dynasty, 65
- Pharaoh	Taharqa, 3
Ancient Greek era	23rd Olympiad (victor)¹
Assyrian calendar	4063
Balinese saka calendar	N/A
Bengali calendar	−1280
Berber calendar	263
Buddhist calendar	−143
Burmese calendar	−1325
Byzantine calendar	4821–4822
Chinese calendar	壬辰年 (Water Dragon) 2010 or 1803     — to — 癸巳年 (Water Snake) 2011 or 1804
Coptic calendar	−971 – −970
Discordian calendar	479
Ethiopian calendar	−695 – −694
Hebrew calendar	3073–3074
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	−631 – −630
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	2413–2414
Holocene calendar	9313
Iranian calendar	1309 BP – 1308 BP
Islamic calendar	1349 BH – 1348 BH
Javanese calendar	N/A
Julian calendar	N/A
Korean calendar	1646
Minguo calendar	2599 before ROC 民前2599年
Nanakshahi calendar	−2155
Thai solar calendar	−145 – −144
Tibetan calendar	阳水龙年 (male Water-Dragon) −561 or −942 or −1714     — to — 阴水蛇年 (female Water-Snake) −560 or −941 or −1713

Olympia in ancient Greece (7th century BC)

The year 688 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. In the Roman Empire, it was known as year 66 Ab urbe condita . The denomination 688 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

By place

Europe

• Traditional date for the founding of Gela in Sicily by colonists from Rhodes and Crete.

By topic

Sports

• Greece's games of the 23rd Olympiad are held at Olympia; boxing is added to the Olympic Games that are more and more intended as preparation for war.