606 BC

The year 606 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. In the Roman Empire, it was known as year 148 Ab urbe condita. The denomination 606 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.

606 BC in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	606 BC DCVI BC
Ab urbe condita	148
Ancient Egypt era	XXVI dynasty, 59
- Pharaoh	Necho II, 5
Ancient Greek Olympiad (summer)	43rd Olympiad, year 3
Assyrian calendar	4145
Balinese saka calendar	N/A
Bengali calendar	−1199 – −1198
Berber calendar	345
Buddhist calendar	−61
Burmese calendar	−1243
Byzantine calendar	4903–4904
Chinese calendar	甲寅年 (Wood Tiger) 2092 or 1885     — to — 乙卯年 (Wood Rabbit) 2093 or 1886
Coptic calendar	−889 – −888
Discordian calendar	561
Ethiopian calendar	−613 – −612
Hebrew calendar	3155–3156
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	−549 – −548
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	2495–2496
Holocene calendar	9395
Iranian calendar	1227 BP – 1226 BP
Islamic calendar	1265 BH – 1264 BH
Javanese calendar	N/A
Julian calendar	N/A
Korean calendar	1728
Minguo calendar	2517 before ROC 民前2517年
Nanakshahi calendar	−2073
Thai solar calendar	−63 – −62
Tibetan calendar	ཤིང་ཕོ་སྟག་ལོ་ (male Wood-Tiger) −479 or −860 or −1632     — to — ཤིང་མོ་ཡོས་ལོ་ (female Wood-Hare) −478 or −859 or −1631

Events

• King Ding of Zhou succeeds King Kuang of Zhou the ruler of the Zhou dynasty.

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Deaths