708 BC

Millennium:	1st millennium BC
Centuries:	9th century BC 8th century BC 7th century BC
Decades:	720s BC 710s BC 700s BC 690s BC 680s BC
Years:	711 BC 710 BC 709 BC 708 BC 707 BC 706 BC 705 BC

708 BC in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	708 BC DCCVIII BC
Ab urbe condita	46
Ancient Egypt era	XXV dynasty, 45
- Pharaoh	Shabaka, 14
Ancient Greek era	18th Olympiad (victor)¹
Assyrian calendar	4043
Balinese saka calendar	N/A
Bengali calendar	−1300
Berber calendar	243
Buddhist calendar	−163
Burmese calendar	−1345
Byzantine calendar	4801–4802
Chinese calendar	壬申年 (Water Monkey) 1990 or 1783     — to — 癸酉年 (Water Rooster) 1991 or 1784
Coptic calendar	−991 – −990
Discordian calendar	459
Ethiopian calendar	−715 – −714
Hebrew calendar	3053–3054
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	−651 – −650
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	2393–2394
Holocene calendar	9293
Iranian calendar	1329 BP – 1328 BP
Islamic calendar	1370 BH – 1369 BH
Javanese calendar	N/A
Julian calendar	N/A
Korean calendar	1626
Minguo calendar	2619 before ROC 民前2619年
Nanakshahi calendar	−2175
Thai solar calendar	−165 – −164
Tibetan calendar	阳水猴年 (male Water-Monkey) −581 or −962 or −1734     — to — 阴水鸡年 (female Water-Rooster) −580 or −961 or −1733

The year 708 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. In the Roman Empire, it was known as year 46 Ab urbe condita . The denomination 708 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

• Traditional founding date of the city of Croton (modern Crotone), Italy.

Births

• Chuzi I, duke of Qin