625 BC

Millennium:	1st millennium BC
Centuries:	8th century BC 7th century BC 6th century BC
Decades:	640s BC 630s BC 620s BC 610s BC 600s BC
Years:	628 BC 627 BC 626 BC 625 BC 624 BC 623 BC 622 BC

625 BC in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	625 BC DCXXV BC
Ab urbe condita	129
Ancient Egypt era	XXVI dynasty, 40
- Pharaoh	Psamtik I, 40
Ancient Greek era	38th Olympiad, year 4
Assyrian calendar	4126
Balinese saka calendar	N/A
Bengali calendar	−1217
Berber calendar	326
Buddhist calendar	−80
Burmese calendar	−1262
Byzantine calendar	4884–4885
Chinese calendar	乙未年 (Wood Goat) 2073 or 1866     — to — 丙申年 (Fire Monkey) 2074 or 1867
Coptic calendar	−908 – −907
Discordian calendar	542
Ethiopian calendar	−632 – −631
Hebrew calendar	3136–3137
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	−568 – −567
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	2476–2477
Holocene calendar	9376
Iranian calendar	1246 BP – 1245 BP
Islamic calendar	1284 BH – 1283 BH
Javanese calendar	N/A
Julian calendar	N/A
Korean calendar	1709
Minguo calendar	2536 before ROC 民前2536年
Nanakshahi calendar	−2092
Thai solar calendar	−82 – −81
Tibetan calendar	阴木羊年 (female Wood-Goat) −498 or −879 or −1651     — to — 阳火猴年 (male Fire-Monkey) −497 or −878 or −1650

The year 625 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. In the Roman Empire, it was known as year 129 Ab urbe condita . The denomination 625 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

• Cyaxares becomes king of the Medes (approximate date)
• Orientalizing period of vases ends in Ancient Greece (approximate date).
• A wine pitcher (oenochoe) from Rhodes is finished, having been begun in 650 BC.

Deaths

• Yuan Taotu, diplomat of the Chinese state of Chen