Millennium: | 1st millennium BC |
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Years: |
Gregorian calendar | 531 BC DXXX BC |
Ab urbe condita | 223 |
Ancient Egypt era | XXVI dynasty, 134 |
- Pharaoh | Amasis II, 40 |
Ancient Greek era | 62nd Olympiad, year 2 |
Assyrian calendar | 4220 |
Bengali calendar | −1123 |
Berber calendar | 420 |
Buddhist calendar | 14 |
Burmese calendar | −1168 |
Byzantine calendar | 4978–4979 |
Chinese calendar |
己巳年 (Earth Snake) 2166 or 2106 — to — 庚午年 (Metal Horse) 2167 or 2107 |
Coptic calendar | −814 – −813 |
Discordian calendar | 636 |
Ethiopian calendar | −538 – −537 |
Hebrew calendar | 3230–3231 |
Hindu calendars | |
- Vikram Samvat | −474 – −473 |
- Shaka Samvat | N/A |
- Kali Yuga | 2570–2571 |
Holocene calendar | 9470 |
Iranian calendar | 1152 BP – 1151 BP |
Islamic calendar | 1187 BH – 1186 BH |
Javanese calendar | N/A |
Julian calendar | N/A |
Korean calendar | 1803 |
Minguo calendar | 2442 before ROC 民前2442年 |
Nanakshahi calendar | −1998 |
Thai solar calendar | 12–13 |
The year 531 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. In the Roman Empire, it was known as year 223 Ab urbe condita. The denomination 531 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.