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The year '''598 BC''' was a year of the [[Roman calendar|pre-Julian Roman calendar]]. In the [[Roman Empire]], it was known as '''year 156 ''[[Ab urbe condita]]'' '''. The denomination 598 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==
* [[Jeconiah|Jehoiachin]] succeeds [[Jehoiakim]] as king of [[Kingdom of Judah|Judah]].
* The traditional date for the foundation of [[Kamarina, Sicily|Kamarina]] by settlers from [[Syracuse, Sicily|Syracuse]].<ref>E.J. Bickerman, ''Chronology of the Ancient World'' (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1968), p.&nbsp;198</ref>

==Births==

* The birth of [[Ma'add ibn Adnan]] an ancestor of the Islamic Prophet [[Muhammad]].

==Deaths==
* [[Jehoiakim]], king of [[Kingdom of Judah|Judah]]

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