650 BC

Millennium:	1st millenniumBC
Centuries:	8th centuryBC 7th centuryBC 6th centuryBC
Decades:	670sBC 660sBC 650sBC 640sBC 630sBC
Years:	653BC 652BC 651BC 650BC 649BC 648BC 647BC

650 BC in variouscalendars

Gregorian calendar	650 BC DCL BC
Ab urbe condita	104
Ancient Egypt era	XXVIdynasty,15
- Pharaoh	Psamtik I,15
Ancient Greek era	32ndOlympiad,year 3
Assyrian calendar	4101
Balinese saka calendar	N/A
Bengali calendar	−1242
Berber calendar	301
Buddhist calendar	−105
Burmese calendar	−1287
Byzantine calendar	4859–4860
Chinese calendar	Canh ngọNiên (MetalHorse) 2048 or 1841 — to — Tân vị niên (MetalGoat) 2049 or 1842
Coptic calendar	−933 – −932
Discordian calendar	517
Ethiopian calendar	−657 – −656
Hebrew calendar	3111–3112
Hindu calendars
-Vikram Samvat	−593 – −592
-Shaka Samvat	N/A
-Kali Yuga	2451–2452
Holocene calendar	9351
Iranian calendar	1271 BP – 1270 BP
Islamic calendar	1310 BH – 1309 BH
Javanese calendar	N/A
Julian calendar	N/A
Korean calendar	1684
Minguo calendar	2561 beforeROC Dân tiền 2561 niên
Nanakshahi calendar	−2117
Thai solar calendar	−107 – −106
Tibetan calendar	Dương kim mã niên (male Iron-Horse) −523 or −904 or −1676 — to — Âm kim dương niên (female Iron-Goat) −522 or −903 or −1675

The year650 BCwas a year of thepre-Julian Roman calendar.In theRoman Empire,it was known asyear 104Ab urbe condita.The denomination 650 BC for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when theAnno Dominicalendar erabecame the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

Events

• Aclimate changeoccurs inEurope,affecting all theBronze Agecultures with colder and wetter climate, and tribes fromScandinaviamigrate south into the Europeancontinent.
• Wine pitcher (oenochoe) fromRhodesis begun, finished in625 BC.It is now at theMuseum of Fine Arts,Boston.
• The city ofAncient Carthageacquires independence fromTyre.
• Thales discovered the first theorems related to circles.

Deaths

• Mentuemhat,Theban Egyptian official