698 BC

Millennium:	1st millennium BC
Centuries:	8th century BC – 7th century BC – 6th century BC
Decades:	720s BC  710s BC  700s BC  – 690s BC –  680s BC  670s BC  660s BC
Years:	701 BC 700 BC 699 BC – 698 BC – 697 BC 696 BC 695 BC

698 BC in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	698 BC DCXCVII BC
Ab urbe condita	56
Ancient Egypt era	XXV dynasty, 55
- Pharaoh	Shebitku, 10
Ancient Greek era	20th Olympiad, year 3
Assyrian calendar	4053
Bengali calendar	−1290
Berber calendar	253
Buddhist calendar	−153
Burmese calendar	−1335
Byzantine calendar	4811–4812
Chinese calendar	壬午年 (Water Horse) 1999 or 1939     — to — 癸未年 (Water Goat) 2000 or 1940
Coptic calendar	−981 – −980
Discordian calendar	469
Ethiopian calendar	−705 – −704
Hebrew calendar	3063–3064
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	−641 – −640
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	2404–2405
Holocene calendar	9303
Iranian calendar	1319 BP – 1318 BP
Islamic calendar	1360 BH – 1358 BH
Julian calendar	N/A
Korean calendar	1636
Minguo calendar	2609 before ROC 民前2609年
Thai solar calendar	−155 – −154

Events

By topic

Exploration, colonization

• Greek colonization of the Mediterranean in the next two centuries will be motivated primarily by a need to find new food sources as Greece's population expands. The barren and rocky soil of the Greek Peninsula is inadequate to meet the people's alimentary needs (approximate date).

Deaths

• Chuzi I, ruler of the state of Qin
• Duke Xi of Qi, ruler of the state of Qi