688 BC

Millennium:	1st millennium BC
Centuries:	8th century BC · 7th century BC · 6th century BC
Decades:	710s BC · 700s BC · 690s BC · 680s BC · 670s BC · 660s BC · 650s 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 DCLXXXVII BC
Ab urbe condita	66
Ancient Egypt era	XXV dynasty, 65
- Pharaoh	Taharqa, 3
Ancient Greek era	23rd Olympiad (victor)¹
Assyrian calendar	4063
Bengali calendar	−1280
Berber calendar	263
Buddhist calendar	−143
Burmese calendar	−1325
Byzantine calendar	4821–4822
Chinese calendar	壬辰年 (Water Dragon) 2009 or 1949     — to — 癸巳年 (Water Snake) 2010 or 1950
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

Olympia in ancient Greece (7th century BC)

Events

By place

Europe

• Traditional date for the founding of Gela in Sicily by colonists from Rhodes and Crete.^[1]

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.

References

1. E.J. Bickerman, Chronology of the Ancient World (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1968), p. 197