The year 688 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. In the Roman Empire, it was known as year 66 ''

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 688 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

Europe

* Traditional date for the founding of Gela in Sicily by

colonists A settler is a person who has migrated to an area and established a permanent residence there, often to colonize the area. A settler who migrates to an area previously uninhabited or sparsely inhabited may be described as a pioneer. Settle ...

from Rhodes and Crete.E.J. Bickerman, Chronology of the Ancient World (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1968), p. 197

By topic

Sports

* Greece's games of the 23rd Olympiad are held at

Olympia The name Olympia may refer to: Arts and entertainment Film * ''Olympia'' (1938 film), by Leni Riefenstahl, documenting the Berlin-hosted Olympic Games * ''Olympia'' (1998 film), about a Mexican soap opera star who pursues a career as an athlet ...

; boxing is added to the Olympic Games that are more and more intended as preparation for war.

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