625 BC

Millennium:	1st millennium BC
Centuries:	8th century BC – 7th century BC – 6th century BC
Decades:	650s BC  640s BC  630s BC  – 620s BC –  610s BC  600s BC  590s BC
Years:	628 BC 627 BC 626 BC – 625 BC – 624 BC 623 BC 622 BC

625 BC in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	625 BC DCXXIV 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
Bengali calendar	−1217
Berber calendar	326
Buddhist calendar	−80
Burmese calendar	−1262
Byzantine calendar	4884–4885
Chinese calendar	乙未年 (Wood Goat) 2072 or 2012     — to — 丙申年 (Fire Monkey) 2073 or 2013
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	2477–2478
Holocene calendar	9376
Iranian calendar	1246 BP – 1245 BP
Islamic calendar	1284 BH – 1283 BH
Julian calendar	N/A
Korean calendar	1709
Minguo calendar	2536 before ROC 民前2536年
Thai solar calendar	−82 – −81

Events

• Medes and Babylonians assert their independence from Assyria and attack Nineveh (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