Key facts
- Gregorian calendar
- 656 BC, DCLVI BC
- Ancient egypt era
- XXVI dynasty , 9
- Pharaoh
- Psamtik I , 9
- Ancient greek olympiad summer
- 31st Olympiad ( victor )¹
- Balinese saka calendar
- N/A
- Bengali calendar
- −1249 – −1248
- Buddhist calendar
- −111
- Burmese calendar
- −1293
- Byzantine calendar
- 4853–4854
- Chinese calendar
- 甲子 年 (Wood Rat ), 2042 or 1835, — to — , 乙丑年 (Wood Ox ), 2043 or 1836
- Coptic calendar
- −939 – −938
- Ethiopian calendar
- −663 – −662
- Hebrew calendar
- 3105–3106
- Vikram samvat
- −599 – −598
- Shaka samvat
- N/A
- Kali yuga
- 2445–2446
- Iranian calendar
- 1277 BP – 1276 BP
- Islamic calendar
- 1316 BH – 1315 BH
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Relief of king Psamtik I making an offering
The year 656 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. In the Roman Empire, it was known as year 98 Ab urbe condita . The denomination 656 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.