698 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
Years:	701 BC 700 BC 699 BC 698 BC 697 BC 696 BC 695 BC

698 BC in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	698 BC DCXCVIII BC
Ab urbe condita	56
Ancient Egypt era	XXV dynasty, 55
- Pharaoh	Shebitku, 10
Ancient Greek era	20th Olympiad, year 3
Assyrian calendar	4053
Balinese saka calendar	N/A
Bengali calendar	−1290
Berber calendar	253
Buddhist calendar	−153
Burmese calendar	−1335
Byzantine calendar	4811–4812
Chinese calendar	壬午年 (Water Horse) 2000 or 1793     — to — 癸未年 (Water Goat) 2001 or 1794
Coptic calendar	−981 – −980
Discordian calendar	469
Ethiopian calendar	−705 – −704
Hebrew calendar	3063–3064
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	−641 – −640
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	2403–2404
Holocene calendar	9303
Iranian calendar	1319 BP – 1318 BP
Islamic calendar	1360 BH – 1358 BH
Javanese calendar	N/A
Julian calendar	N/A
Korean calendar	1636
Minguo calendar	2609 before ROC 民前2609年
Nanakshahi calendar	−2165
Thai solar calendar	−155 – −154
Tibetan calendar	阳水马年 (male Water-Horse) −571 or −952 or −1724     — to — 阴水羊年 (female Water-Goat) −570 or −951 or −1723

The year 698 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. In the Roman Empire, it was known as year 56 Ab urbe condita. The denomination 698 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.

Events and trends

By topic

Exploration, colonization

• Greek colonization of the Mediterranean in the next two centuries will be motivated primarily by a need to find new food sources as Greece's population expands. The barren and rocky soil of the Greek Peninsula is inadequate to meet the people's alimentary needs (approximate date).

Deaths

• Chuzi I, ruler of the state of Qin
• Duke Xi of Qi, ruler of the state of Qi