# 649 BC

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The year **649 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 105 *[Ab urbe condita](/source/Ab_urbe_condita)***. The denomination 649 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

- A revolt led by [Shamash-shum-ukin](/source/Shamash-shum-ukin) is crushed by the [Assyrians](/source/Assyria).
- Indabigash succeeds Tammaritu as a king of the [Elamite Empire](/source/Elamite_Empire).
- Traditional date of the foundation of [Himera](/source/Himera) by [Zancle](/source/Zancle).[1]

## References

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

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