# 628 BC

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The year **628 BC** was a year of the [pre-Julian Roman calendar](/source/Roman_calendar). In the [Roman Empire](/source/Roman_Empire), it was known as **year 126 *[Ab urbe condita](/source/Ab_urbe_condita)***. The denomination 628 BC for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the [Anno Domini](/source/Anno_Domini) [calendar era](/source/Calendar_era) became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

## Events

- Traditional date of the foundation of [Selinus](/source/Selinus) by [Megara Hyblaea](/source/Megara_Hyblaea).[1]

## Births

- [Zoroaster](/source/Zoroaster), Persian religious prophet

## Deaths

- [Duke Wen of Jin](/source/Duke_Wen_of_Jin), ruler of the state of [Jin](/source/Jin_(Chinese_state))

## References

1. E.J. Bickerman, Chronology of the Ancient World (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1968), p. 198

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