Millennium: 1st millennium BC
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644 BC by topic
Politics
Categories
  • Deaths
644 BC in various calendars
Gregorian calendar644 BC
DCXLIV BC
Ab urbe condita110
Ancient Egypt eraXXVI dynasty, 21
- PharaohPsamtik I, 21
Ancient Greek era34th Olympiad (victor)¹
Assyrian calendar4107
Balinese saka calendarN/A
Bengali calendar−1236
Berber calendar307
Buddhist calendar−99
Burmese calendar−1281
Byzantine calendar4865–4866
Chinese calendar丙子年 (Fire Rat)
2054 or 1847
    — to —
丁丑年 (Fire Ox)
2055 or 1848
Coptic calendar−927 – −926
Discordian calendar523
Ethiopian calendar−651 – −650
Hebrew calendar3117–3118
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat−587 – −586
 - Shaka SamvatN/A
 - Kali Yuga2457–2458
Holocene calendar9357
Iranian calendar1265 BP – 1264 BP
Islamic calendar1304 BH – 1303 BH
Javanese calendarN/A
Julian calendarN/A
Korean calendar1690
Minguo calendar2555 before ROC
民前2555年
Nanakshahi calendar−2111
Thai solar calendar−101 – −100
Tibetan calendar阳火鼠年
(male Fire-Rat)
−517 or −898 or −1670
    — to —
阴火牛年
(female Fire-Ox)
−516 or −897 or −1669

The year 644 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. In the Roman Empire, it was known as year 110 Ab urbe condita. The denomination 644 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

Asia Minor

  • Cimmerian forces from Anatolia conquer Sardis and reach the peak of their power. King Gyges of Lydia has spent most of his 28-year reign fighting his southern and western neighbors in an effort to gain suzerainty over all of Western Asia Minor. He has helped the rebellion of Psamtik I, but he receives no support from his erstwhile Assyrian ally Ashurbanipal. Gyges falls in a battle against the Cimmerians under king Tugdamme (approximate date).
  • Ardys succeeds his father Gyges as the second Mermnad king of Lydia. During his reign he finds payment of tribute to Assyria preferable to rule by the Cimmerians, who will be routed a few decades later.

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