The year 628 BC was a year of the
pre-Julian Roman calendar. In the
Roman Empire, it was known as year 126 ''
Ab urbe condita
''Ab urbe condita'' ( 'from the founding of the City'), or ''anno urbis conditae'' (; 'in the year since the city's founding'), abbreviated as AUC or AVC, expresses a date in years since 753 BC, the traditional founding of Rome. It is an exp ...
'' . The denomination 628 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
* Traditional date of the foundation of
Selinus by
Megara Hyblaea.
[E.J. Bickerman, Chronology of the Ancient World (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1968), p. 198]
Births
*
Zoroaster, Persian religious prophet
Deaths
*
Duke Wen of Jin
Duke Wen of Jin (697–628BC), born Chong'er (literally "Double Ears"), was a scion of the royal house of Jin during the Spring and Autumn Period of Chinese history. He famously endured a long period of exile from his realm before finally bei ...
, ruler of the state of
Jin
References
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