Millennium: | 1st millennium BC |
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Years: |
Gregorian calendar | 540 BC DXXXIX BC |
Ab urbe condita | 214 |
Ancient Egypt era | XXVI dynasty, 125 |
- Pharaoh | Amasis II, 31 |
Ancient Greek era | 60th Olympiad (victor)¹ |
Assyrian calendar | 4211 |
Balinese saka calendar | N/A |
Bengali calendar | −1132 |
Berber calendar | 411 |
Buddhist calendar | 5 |
Burmese calendar | −1177 |
Byzantine calendar | 4969–4970 |
Chinese calendar |
庚申年 (Metal Monkey) 2157 or 2097 — to — 辛酉年 (Metal Rooster) 2158 or 2098 |
Coptic calendar | −823 – −822 |
Discordian calendar | 627 |
Ethiopian calendar | −547 – −546 |
Hebrew calendar | 3221–3222 |
Hindu calendars | |
- Vikram Samvat | −483 – −482 |
- Shaka Samvat | N/A |
- Kali Yuga | 2561–2562 |
Holocene calendar | 9461 |
Iranian calendar | 1161 BP – 1160 BP |
Islamic calendar | 1197 BH – 1196 BH |
Javanese calendar | N/A |
Julian calendar | N/A |
Korean calendar | 1794 |
Minguo calendar | 2451 before ROC 民前2451年 |
Nanakshahi calendar | −2007 |
Thai solar calendar | 3–4 |
The year 540 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. In the Roman Empire, it was known as year 214 Ab urbe condita. The denomination 540 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.