{{Year nav|-676}} {{BC year in topic|676}}The year '''676 BC''' was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. In the Roman Empire, it was known as '''year 78 ''ab urbe condita'''''. The denomination 676 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 ===
==== Greece ==== *Callisthenes of Laconia wins the stadion race at the 26th Olympic Games.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Eusebius: Chronicle (2) - translation |url=https://www.attalus.org/translate/eusebius2.html |access-date=2025-06-25 |website=www.attalus.org}}</ref>
==== China ==== *Zhou Hui Wang becomes King of the Zhou Dynasty of China.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Back |first=Youngsun |date=2021-07-13 |title=Who Should Ascend the Throne? : The Two Views of Korean Confucians |url=https://scholarworks.iu.edu/iupjournals/index.php/jwp/article/view/4161 |journal=Journal of World Philosophies |language=en |volume=6 |issue=1 |pages=58–72 |issn=2474-1795}}</ref> ==== Middle East ==== * In 679 BCE, Sennacherib's successor, King Esarhaddon, campaigned in Khor, destroyed Sidon, and forced Tyre into tribute from 677 BCE to this year.
== Deaths == * Duke De of Qin<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.guoxue.com/shibu/24shi/shiji/sj_005.htm |script-title=zh:秦本纪 |trans-title=Annals of Qin |work=Records of the Grand Historian |author=Sima Qian |author-link=Sima Qian |language=Chinese |publisher=guoxue.com |accessdate=1 May 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=Annotated Shiji |author=Han, Zhaoqi |year=2010 |publisher=Zhonghua Book Company |isbn=978-7-101-07272-3 |language=Chinese |chapter=Annals of Qin |pages=356–362}}</ref>
== References == {{reflist}}
Category:670s BC Category:Years of the 7th century BC
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