725 BC

Millennium:	1st millennium BC
Centuries:	9th century BC · 8th century BC · 7th century BC
Decades:	750s BC · 740s BC · 730s BC · 720s BC · 710s BC · 700s BC · 690s BC
Years:	728 BC · 727 BC · 726 BC · 725 BC · 724 BC · 723 BC · 722 BC

725 BC in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	725 BC DCCXXIV BC
Ab urbe condita	29
Ancient Egypt era	XXV dynasty, 28
- Pharaoh	Piye, 28
Ancient Greek era	13th Olympiad, year 4
Assyrian calendar	4026
Bengali calendar	−1317
Berber calendar	226
Buddhist calendar	−180
Burmese calendar	−1362
Byzantine calendar	4784–4785
Chinese calendar	乙卯年 (Wood Rabbit) 1972 or 1912     — to — 丙辰年 (Fire Dragon) 1973 or 1913
Coptic calendar	−1008 – −1007
Discordian calendar	442
Ethiopian calendar	−732 – −731
Hebrew calendar	3036–3037
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	−668 – −667
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	2376–2377
Holocene calendar	9276
Iranian calendar	1346 BP – 1345 BP
Islamic calendar	1387 BH – 1386 BH
Javanese calendar	N/A
Julian calendar	N/A
Korean calendar	1609
Minguo calendar	2636 before ROC 民前2636年
Nanakshahi calendar	−2192
Thai solar calendar	−182 – −181

Events

• Shalmaneser V starts a 3-year siege of Israel
• Bakenranef (also known as Bocchoris) succeeds his father Tefnakhte as king of the Twenty-fourth dynasty of Egypt.
• Sparta conquers the neighboring region of Messenia and takes over the land.

Births

• Duke Xian of Qin (725–704 BC)

References