Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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Centuries: | |
Decades: | |
Years: |
Gregorian calendar | 1959 MCMLIX |
Ab urbe condita | 2712 |
Armenian calendar | 1408 ԹՎ ՌՆԸ |
Assyrian calendar | 6709 |
Bahá'í calendar | 115–116 |
Bengali calendar | 1366 |
Berber calendar | 2909 |
British Regnal year | 7 Eliz. 2 – 8 Eliz. 2 |
Buddhist calendar | 2503 |
Burmese calendar | 1321 |
Byzantine calendar | 7467–7468 |
Chinese calendar |
戊戌年 (Earth Dog) 4655 or 4595 — to — 己亥年 (Earth Pig) 4656 or 4596 |
Coptic calendar | 1675–1676 |
Discordian calendar | 3125 |
Ethiopian calendar | 1951–1952 |
Hebrew calendar | 5719–5720 |
Hindu calendars | |
- Vikram Samvat | 2015–2016 |
- Shaka Samvat | 1880–1881 |
- Kali Yuga | 5059–5060 |
Holocene calendar | 11959 |
Igbo calendar | 959–960 |
Iranian calendar | 1337–1338 |
Islamic calendar | 1378–1379 |
Japanese calendar |
Shōwa 34 (昭和34年) |
Javanese calendar | 1890–1891 |
Juche calendar | 48 |
Julian calendar | Gregorian minus 13 days |
Korean calendar | 4292 |
Minguo calendar |
ROC 48 民國48年 |
Nanakshahi calendar | 491 |
Thai solar calendar | 2502 |
1959 (MCMLIX) was a common year starting on Thursday (dominical letter D) of the Gregorian calendar, the 1959th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 959th year of the 2nd millennium, the 59th year of the 20th century, and the 10th and last year of the 1950s decade.