Editing 657 BC

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The year '''657 BC''' was a year of the [[Roman calendar|pre-Julian Roman calendar]]. In the [[Roman Empire]], it was known as '''year 97 ''[[Ab urbe condita]]'' '''. The denomination 657 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===

==== Asia Minor ====

* King [[Gyges of Lydia]] establishes a [[Government monopoly|state monopoly]] in metal [[Coin|coinage]], making it illegal for individuals to issue the bean-shaped lumps of [[electrum]] used as a medium of exchange in place of commodities (approximate date). 

==== Greece ====

* [[Cypselus]] becomes the first [[tyrant]] of [[Corinth]].

==== China ====

* The [[Li Ji Unrest]], a series of events that ends in [[651 BC]], initiates when [[Li Ji (concubine)|Li Ji]], the concubine of [[Duke Xian of Jin]], attempts to have her son [[Xiqi]] placed on the [[throne]] of [[Jin (Chinese state)|Jin]].

==Births==

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==Deaths==

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==References==
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