648 BC

Millennium:	1st millennium BC
Centuries:	8th century BC · 7th century BC · 6th century BC
Decades:	670s BC · 660s BC · 650s BC · 640s BC · 630s BC · 620s BC · 610s BC
Years:	651 BC · 650 BC · 649 BC · 648 BC · 647 BC · 646 BC · 645 BC

648 BC in various calendars
Gregorian calendar	648 BC DCXLVII BC
Ab urbe condita	106
Ancient Egypt era	XXVI dynasty, 17
- Pharaoh	Psamtik I, 17
Ancient Greek era	33rd Olympiad (victor )¹
Assyrian calendar	4103
Bengali calendar	−1240
Berber calendar	303
Buddhist calendar	−103
Burmese calendar	−1285
Byzantine calendar	4861–4862
Chinese calendar	壬申年 (Water Monkey) 2049 or 1989 — to — 癸酉年 (Water Rooster) 2050 or 1990
Coptic calendar	−931 – −930
Discordian calendar	519
Ethiopian calendar	−655 – −654
Hebrew calendar	3113–3114
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	−591 – −590
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	2453–2454
Holocene calendar	9353
Iranian calendar	1269 BP – 1268 BP
Islamic calendar	1308 BH – 1307 BH
Javanese calendar	N/A
Julian calendar	N/A
Korean calendar	1686
Minguo calendar	2559 before ROC 民前2559年
Nanakshahi calendar	−2115
Thai solar calendar	−105 – −104

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Events

Babylon falls to Assyrian forces after a 3-year siege (see 651 BC); starved out by his half brother Ashurbanipal, king Shamash-shum-ukin commits suicide in his burning palace, allegedly having built a pyre of his concubines and royal treasure as the Assyrians slaughter his city's garrison and much of its population.

Messenians in the Peloponnese revolt against Sparta under the leadership of king Aristomenes, beginning a struggle that will continue until 631 BC.
April 6 - The earliest solar eclipse to be chronicled by the Greeks is observed.^[1]

Greece's 33rd games of the Olympiad is held at Olympia with a new event: the pankration is a no-holds-barred contest that combines boxing and wrestling.

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

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