699 BC

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:	702 BC 701 BC 700 BC 699 BC 698 BC 697 BC 696 BC

699 BC in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	699 BC DCXCIX BC
Ab urbe condita	55
Ancient Egypt era	XXV dynasty, 54
- Pharaoh	Shebitku, 9
Ancient Greek era	20th Olympiad, year 2
Assyrian calendar	4052
Balinese saka calendar	N/A
Bengali calendar	−1291
Berber calendar	252
Buddhist calendar	−154
Burmese calendar	−1336
Byzantine calendar	4810–4811
Chinese calendar	辛巳年 (Metal Snake) 1999 or 1792     — to — 壬午年 (Water Horse) 2000 or 1793
Coptic calendar	−982 – −981
Discordian calendar	468
Ethiopian calendar	−706 – −705
Hebrew calendar	3062–3063
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	−642 – −641
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	2402–2403
Holocene calendar	9302
Iranian calendar	1320 BP – 1319 BP
Islamic calendar	1361 BH – 1360 BH
Javanese calendar	N/A
Julian calendar	N/A
Korean calendar	1635
Minguo calendar	2610 before ROC 民前2610年
Nanakshahi calendar	−2166
Thai solar calendar	−156 – −155
Tibetan calendar	阴金蛇年 (female Iron-Snake) −572 or −953 or −1725     — to — 阳水马年 (male Water-Horse) −571 or −952 or −1724

The year 699 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. In the Roman Empire, it was known as year 55 Ab urbe condita . The denomination 699 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 and trends

By place

Middle East

• Hallashu-Inshushinak succeeds Shuttir-Nakhkhunte as king of the Elamite Empire.
• Manasseh succeeds Hezekiah as king of Judah. The first king who did not have an experience with the Kingdom of Israel, Manasseh ruled with his mother, Hephzibah, as regent.
• Sennacherib carries out his fifth military campaign in Babylonia, a series of raids against the villages around the foot of Mount Judi, located to the northeast of Nineveh.