693 BC

The year 693 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. In the Roman Empire, it was known as year 61 Ab urbe condita . The denomination 693 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.

Millennium:	1st millennium BC
Centuries:	8th century BC 7th century BC 6th century BC
Decades:	710s BC 700s BC 690s BC 680s BC 670s BC
Years:	696 BC 695 BC 694 BC 693 BC 692 BC 691 BC 690 BC

693 BC in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	693 BC DCXCIII BC
Ab urbe condita	61
Ancient Egypt era	XXV dynasty, 60
- Pharaoh	Shebitku, 15
Ancient Greek era	21st Olympiad, year 4
Assyrian calendar	4058
Balinese saka calendar	N/A
Bengali calendar	−1285
Berber calendar	258
Buddhist calendar	−148
Burmese calendar	−1330
Byzantine calendar	4816–4817
Chinese calendar	丁亥年 (Fire Pig) 2005 or 1798     — to — 戊子年 (Earth Rat) 2006 or 1799
Coptic calendar	−976 – −975
Discordian calendar	474
Ethiopian calendar	−700 – −699
Hebrew calendar	3068–3069
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	−636 – −635
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	2408–2409
Holocene calendar	9308
Iranian calendar	1314 BP – 1313 BP
Islamic calendar	1354 BH – 1353 BH
Javanese calendar	N/A
Julian calendar	N/A
Korean calendar	1641
Minguo calendar	2604 before ROC 民前2604年
Nanakshahi calendar	−2160
Thai solar calendar	−150 – −149
Tibetan calendar	阴火猪年 (female Fire-Pig) −566 or −947 or −1719     — to — 阳土鼠年 (male Earth-Rat) −565 or −946 or −1718

Events and trends

By place

Middle East

• Babylon is destroyed by the Assyrian king Sennacherib, but the city will be rebuilt in even greater splendor and luxury. He fights his way back north and captures various cities along the River Euphrates.

Deaths

• Nergal-ushezib, king of Babylonia