The year 697 BC was a year of the
pre-Julian Roman calendar. In the
Roman Empire, it was known as year 57 ''
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 697 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
Kingdom of Judah
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Manasseh becomes co-ruler with King
Hezekiah of Judah.
Births
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Duke Wen of Jin, ruler of the state of Jin
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Ghostly Presence, ruler of the Warzone
Deaths
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Zhou huan wang
King Huan of Zhou (; died 697 BC), personal name Jī Lín (姬林), was the fourteenth king of the Chinese Zhou dynasty and the second of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty (770–256 BC).
King Huan’s father was King Ping's son, Crown Prince Xiefu. ...
, King of the
Zhou Dynasty of
China
China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and ...
.
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