The year 657 BC was a year of the
pre-Julian Roman calendar. In the
Roman Empire, it was known as year 97 ''
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 657 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
By place
Asia Minor
* King
Gyges of Lydia establishes a
state monopoly in metal
coinage, making it illegal for individuals to issue the bean-shaped lumps of
electrum used as a medium of exchange in place of commodities (approximate date).
Greece
*
Cypselus becomes the first
tyrant of
Corinth.
China
* The
Li Ji Unrest
The Li Ji Unrest or Rebellion (657–651 BCE) was a series of events that took place in the State of Jin during the Spring and Autumn period of ancient China, caused by Li Ji, the concubine of Duke Xian of Jin, in order to put her son Xiqi onto ...
, a series of events that ends in
651 BC, initiates when
Li Ji, the concubine of
Duke Xian of Jin
Duke Xian of Jin (, died 651 BC), ancestral name Ji (姬), given name Guizhu (詭諸), was the nineteenth ruler of the State of Jin. He was also the ninth ruler of Jin in the Spring and Autumn period and the second duke of Jin. When his father, ...
, attempts to have her son
Xiqi
Xiqi (, 665–651 BC) was briefly the ruler of the Jin (Chinese state), State of Jin during the Spring and Autumn period of ancient China. He was the son of Duke Xian of Jin and his favored concubine Li Ji (concubine), Li Ji, and later replaced ...
placed on the
throne of
Jin.
Births
Deaths
References
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