668 BC

Millennium:	1st millennium BC
Centuries:	8th century BC · 7th century BC · 6th century BC
Decades:	690s BC · 680s BC · 670s BC · 660s BC · 650s BC · 640s BC · 630s BC
Years:	671 BC · 670 BC · 669 BC · 668 BC · 667 BC · 666 BC · 665 BC

668 BC in various calendars
Gregorian calendar	668 BC DCLXVII BC
Ab urbe condita	86
Ancient Egypt era	XXV dynasty, 85
- Pharaoh	Taharqa, 23
Ancient Greek era	28th Olympiad (victor )¹
Assyrian calendar	4083
Bengali calendar	−1260
Berber calendar	283
Buddhist calendar	−123
Burmese calendar	−1305
Byzantine calendar	4841–4842
Chinese calendar	壬子年 (Water Rat) 2029 or 1969 — to — 癸丑年 (Water Ox) 2030 or 1970
Coptic calendar	−951 – −950
Discordian calendar	499
Ethiopian calendar	−675 – −674
Hebrew calendar	3093–3094
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	−611 – −610
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	2433–2434
Holocene calendar	9333
Iranian calendar	1289 BP – 1288 BP
Islamic calendar	1329 BH – 1328 BH
Javanese calendar	N/A
Julian calendar	N/A
Korean calendar	1666
Minguo calendar	2579 before ROC 民前2579年
Nanakshahi calendar	−2135
Thai solar calendar	−125 – −124

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Events

King Ashurbanipal puts down an Egyptian rebellion. He drives out Egypt's Ethiopian king Taharqa, and restores Necho I as governor of Sais in the Nile Delta.
Nineveh, capital of Assyria becomes the largest city of the world, taking the lead from Thebes in Egypt (estimation).^[1]
Shamash-shum-ukin, second son of the late Assyrian king Esarhaddon, becomes king of Babylon.

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