598 BC

The year 598 BC was a year of the 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

• Jehoiachin succeeds Jehoiakim as king of Judah.
• The traditional date for the foundation of Kamarina by settlers from Syracuse.<ref>E.J. Bickerman, Chronology of the Ancient World (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1968), p. 198</ref>

Births

• The birth of Ma'add ibn Adnan an ancestor of the Islamic Prophet Muhammad.

Deaths

• Jehoiakim, king of Judah

References

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