675 BC

Calendar year

Millennium:	1st millennium BC
Centuries:	8th century BC 7th century BC 6th century BC
Decades:	690s BC 680s BC 670s BC 660s BC 650s BC
Years:	678 BC 677 BC 676 BC 675 BC 674 BC 673 BC 672 BC
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675 BC in various calendars

Gregorian calendar 675 BC
DCLXXV BC

Ab urbe condita 79

Ancient Egypt era XXV dynasty, 78

- Pharaoh Taharqa, 16

Ancient Greek era 26th Olympiad, year 2

Assyrian calendar 4076

Balinese saka calendar N/A

Bengali calendar −1268 – −1267

Berber calendar 276

Buddhist calendar −130

Burmese calendar −1312

Byzantine calendar 4834–4835

Chinese calendar 乙巳年 (Wood Snake)
2023 or 1816
— to —
丙午年 (Fire Horse)
2024 or 1817

Coptic calendar −958 – −957

Discordian calendar 492

Ethiopian calendar −682 – −681

Hebrew calendar 3086–3087

Hindu calendars

- Vikram Samvat −618 – −617

- Shaka Samvat N/A

- Kali Yuga 2426–2427

Holocene calendar 9326

Iranian calendar 1296 BP – 1295 BP

Islamic calendar 1336 BH – 1335 BH

Javanese calendar N/A

Julian calendar N/A

Korean calendar 1659

Minguo calendar 2586 before ROC
民前2586年

Nanakshahi calendar −2142

Thai solar calendar −132 – −131

Tibetan calendar 阴木蛇年
(female Wood-Snake)
−548 or −929 or −1701
— to —
阳火马年
(male Fire-Horse)
−547 or −928 or −1700

The year 675 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. In the Roman Empire, it was known as year 79 Ab urbe condita . The denomination 675 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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Middle East

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King Deioces dies after a 53-year reign that has established the kingdom of the Medes and its capital at Ecbatana (later Hamedan) in what will be northwest Persia. He is succeeded by his son Phraortes, who forms an anti-Assyrian alliance with the Cimmerians to subjugate the Persians and other Asian peoples.
King Esarhaddon begins to rebuild Babylon (approximate date).