647 BC

The year 647 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. In the Roman Empire, it was known as year 107 Ab urbe condita . The denomination 647 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.

Millennium:	1st millennium BC
Centuries:	8th century BC 7th century BC 6th century BC
Decades:	660s BC 650s BC 640s BC 630s BC 620s BC
Years:	650 BC 649 BC 648 BC 647 BC 646 BC 645 BC 644 BC

647 BC in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	647 BC DCXLVI BC
Ab urbe condita	107
Ancient Egypt era	XXVI dynasty, 18
- Pharaoh	Psamtik I, 18
Ancient Greek era	33rd Olympiad, year 2
Assyrian calendar	4104
Balinese saka calendar	N/A
Bengali calendar	−1239
Berber calendar	304
Buddhist calendar	−102
Burmese calendar	−1284
Byzantine calendar	4862–4863
Chinese calendar	癸酉年 (Water Rooster) 2050 or 1990     — to — 甲戌年 (Wood Dog) 2051 or 1991
Coptic calendar	−930 – −929
Discordian calendar	520
Ethiopian calendar	−654 – −653
Hebrew calendar	3114–3115
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	−590 – −589
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	2454–2455
Holocene calendar	9354
Iranian calendar	1268 BP – 1267 BP
Islamic calendar	1307 BH – 1306 BH
Javanese calendar	N/A
Julian calendar	N/A
Korean calendar	1687
Minguo calendar	2558 before ROC 民前2558年
Nanakshahi calendar	−2114
Thai solar calendar	−104 – −103
Tibetan calendar	阴水鸡年 (female Water-Rooster) −520 or −901 or −1673     — to — 阳木狗年 (male Wood-Dog) −519 or −900 or −1672

Events

Middle East

• Elam refuses to extradite an Aramaean prince, giving the king Ashurbanipal of Assyria an excuse to invade the country. He sacks the city of Susa.
• Ashurbanipal and his Queen in the Garden, from the palace at Nineveh (modern Kuyunjik, Iraq), is made. It is now at the British Museum, London.

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