656 BC

Millennium: 1st millennium BC
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656 BC in various calendars
Gregorian calendar656 BC
DCLVI BC
Ab urbe condita98
Ancient Egypt eraXXVI dynasty, 9
- PharaohPsamtik I, 9
Ancient Greek era31st Olympiad (victor
Assyrian calendar4095
Balinese saka calendarN/A
Bengali calendar−1248
Berber calendar295
Buddhist calendar−111
Burmese calendar−1293
Byzantine calendar4853–4854
Chinese calendar甲子年 (Wood Rat)
2042 or 1835
    — to —
乙丑年 (Wood Ox)
2043 or 1836
Coptic calendar−939 – −938
Discordian calendar511
Ethiopian calendar−663 – −662
Hebrew calendar3105–3106
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat−599 – −598
 - Shaka SamvatN/A
 - Kali Yuga2445–2446
Holocene calendar9345
Iranian calendar1277 BP – 1276 BP
Islamic calendar1316 BH – 1315 BH
Javanese calendarN/A
Julian calendarN/A
Korean calendar1678
Minguo calendar2567 before ROC
民前2567年
Nanakshahi calendar−2123
Thai solar calendar−113 – −112
Tibetan calendar阳木鼠年
(male Wood-Rat)
−529 or −910 or −1682
    — to —
阴木牛年
(female Wood-Ox)
−528 or −909 or −1681
Relief of king Psamtik I making an offering

The year 656 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. In the Roman Empire, it was known as year 98 Ab urbe condita . The denomination 656 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.