640 BC

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640 BC in various calendars
Gregorian calendar 640 BC
DCXXXIX BC
Ab urbe condita 114
Ancient Egypt era XXVI dynasty, 25
- Pharaoh Psamtik I, 25
Ancient Greek era 35th Olympiad (victor
Assyrian calendar 4111
Balinese saka calendar N/A
Bengali calendar −1232
Berber calendar 311
Buddhist calendar −95
Burmese calendar −1277
Byzantine calendar 4869–4870
Chinese calendar 庚辰(Metal  Dragon)
2057 or 1997
     to 
辛巳年 (Metal  Snake)
2058 or 1998
Coptic calendar −923 – −922
Discordian calendar 527
Ethiopian calendar −647 – −646
Hebrew calendar 3121–3122
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat −583 – −582
 - Shaka Samvat N/A
 - Kali Yuga 2461–2462
Holocene calendar 9361
Iranian calendar 1261 BP – 1260 BP
Islamic calendar 1300 BH – 1299 BH
Javanese calendar N/A
Julian calendar N/A
Korean calendar 1694
Minguo calendar 2551 before ROC
民前2551年
Nanakshahi calendar −2107
Thai solar calendar −97 – −96
Tibetan calendar 阳金龙年
(male Iron-Dragon)
−513 or −894 or −1666
     to 
阴金蛇年
(female Iron-Snake)
−512 or −893 or −1665

The year 640 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. In the Roman Empire, it was known as year 114 Ab urbe condita . The denomination 640 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.

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References

  1. 1 2 E.J. Bickerman, Chronology of the Ancient World (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1968), p. 198