681 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  660s BC  650s BC
Years:	684 BC 683 BC 682 BC – 681 BC – 680 BC 679 BC 678 BC

681 BC in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	681 BC DCLXXX BC
Ab urbe condita	73
Ancient Egypt era	XXV dynasty, 72
- Pharaoh	Taharqa, 10
Ancient Greek era	24th Olympiad, year 4
Assyrian calendar	4070
Bengali calendar	−1273
Berber calendar	270
Buddhist calendar	−136
Burmese calendar	−1318
Byzantine calendar	4828–4829
Chinese calendar	己亥年 (Earth Pig) 2016 or 1956     — to — 庚子年 (Metal Rat) 2017 or 1957
Coptic calendar	−964 – −963
Discordian calendar	486
Ethiopian calendar	−688 – −687
Hebrew calendar	3080–3081
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	−624 – −623
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	2421–2422
Holocene calendar	9320
Iranian calendar	1302 BP – 1301 BP
Islamic calendar	1342 BH – 1341 BH
Julian calendar	N/A
Korean calendar	1653
Minguo calendar	2592 before ROC 民前2592年
Thai solar calendar	−138 – −137

Events

By place

Middle East

• King Sennacherib of Assyria is assassinated by one or two of his sons in the temple of the god Ninurta at Kalhu (Northern Mesopotamia) after a 24-year reign in which he defeated the Babylonians, made Nineveh (modern Iraq) a showplace, and diverted the waters of the Tigris River into a huge aqueduct to supply the city with irrigation.
• Sennacherib's second wife, Naqi'a (Zakitu), uses her wiles and influences to have the imperial council appoint her son Esarhaddon as her husband's successor in preference to the young man's two older brothers, who flee to Urartu (Armenia). Esarhaddon, unlike his father, is friendly toward Babylon and orders her reconstruction.

Asia

• Xi of Zhou becomes king of the Zhou Dynasty (China).

Deaths

• Sennacherib, king of Assyria