Millennium: | 1st millennium BC |
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642 BC by topic |
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Gregorian calendar | 642 BC DCXLII BC |
Ab urbe condita | 112 |
Ancient Egypt era | XXVI dynasty, 23 |
- Pharaoh | Psamtik I, 23 |
Ancient Greek era | 34th Olympiad, year 3 |
Assyrian calendar | 4109 |
Balinese saka calendar | N/A |
Bengali calendar | −1234 |
Berber calendar | 309 |
Buddhist calendar | −97 |
Burmese calendar | −1279 |
Byzantine calendar | 4867–4868 |
Chinese calendar | 戊寅年 (Earth Tiger) 2056 or 1849 — to — 己卯年 (Earth Rabbit) 2057 or 1850 |
Coptic calendar | −925 – −924 |
Discordian calendar | 525 |
Ethiopian calendar | −649 – −648 |
Hebrew calendar | 3119–3120 |
Hindu calendars | |
- Vikram Samvat | −585 – −584 |
- Shaka Samvat | N/A |
- Kali Yuga | 2459–2460 |
Holocene calendar | 9359 |
Iranian calendar | 1263 BP – 1262 BP |
Islamic calendar | 1302 BH – 1301 BH |
Javanese calendar | N/A |
Julian calendar | N/A |
Korean calendar | 1692 |
Minguo calendar | 2553 before ROC 民前2553年 |
Nanakshahi calendar | −2109 |
Thai solar calendar | −99 – −98 |
Tibetan calendar | 阳土虎年 (male Earth-Tiger) −515 or −896 or −1668 — to — 阴土兔年 (female Earth-Rabbit) −514 or −895 or −1667 |
The year 642 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. In the Roman Empire, it was known as year 112 Ab urbe condita . The denomination 642 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.