636 BC

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The year '''636 BC''' was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. In the Roman Empire, it was known as '''year 118 ''Ab urbe condita'' '''. The denomination 636 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== * Duke Wen of Jin becomes ruler of the State of Jin in Zhou dynasty China.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Barnhart |first1=Richard M. |title=Mandate of Heaven Emperors and Artists in China : Chinese Painting and Calligraphy from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |date=1996 |publisher=Museum Rietberg |isbn=9783907070635 |page=39 |url=https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Mandate_of_Heaven/rKRHAQAAIAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=636&dq=636&printsec=frontcover}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=China's Terracotta Warriors: The First Emperor's Legacy |date=2012 |publisher=Minneapolis Institute of Arts |isbn=9780980048490 |page=21 |url=https://archive.org/details/chinasterracotta0000liuy/page/20/mode/2up}}</ref>

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