700 BC

Millennium:	1st millennium BC
Centuries:	8th century BC 7th century BC 6th century BC
Decades:	720s BC 710s BC 700s BC 690s BC 680s BC
Years:	703 BC 702 BC 701 BC 700 BC 699 BC 698 BC 697 BC

700 BC in various calendars

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

King Sennacherib during his Babylonian war

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

By place

Middle East

• 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.
• Babylon's Assyrian-raised puppet king Bel-ibni dies after a 3-year reign. He is replaced by Sennacherib's son, Ashur-nadin-shumi.
• Assyrian king Ashurbanipal founds a library, which includes the earliest known complete copy of the Epic of Gilgamesh.

By topic

Agriculture

• 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).
• Phoenician colonists plant olive trees on the Iberian Peninsula (modern Spain). They establish trade routes across the Mediterranean.
• Laws against animal slaughter are relaxed in India (approximate date).

Environment

• Cities developing in the Near East build aqueducts to keep their residents supplied with water (approximate date).

Births

• Mentuemhat, Egyptian government official

Deaths

• Bel-ibni, king of Babylon

Economy

• Money emerged about the year 700 BC