556
| Millennium: | 1st millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | |
| Decades: | |
| Years: |
| Gregorian calendar | 556 DLVI |
| Ab urbe condita | 1309 |
| Armenian calendar | 5 ԹՎ Ե |
| Assyrian calendar | 5306 |
| Bengali calendar | −37 |
| Berber calendar | 1506 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1100 |
| Burmese calendar | −82 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6064–6065 |
| Chinese calendar |
乙亥年 (Wood Pig) 3252 or 3192 — to — 丙子年 (Fire Rat) 3253 or 3193 |
| Coptic calendar | 272–273 |
| Discordian calendar | 1722 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 548–549 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4316–4317 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 612–613 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 477–478 |
| - Kali Yuga | 3656–3657 |
| Holocene calendar | 10556 |
| Iranian calendar | 66 BP – 65 BP |
| Islamic calendar | 68 BH – 67 BH |
| Javanese calendar | 444–445 |
| Julian calendar | 556 DLVI |
| Korean calendar | 2889 |
| Minguo calendar | 1356 before ROC 民前1356年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | −912 |
| Seleucid era | 867/868 AG |
| Thai solar calendar | 1098–1099 |
Year 556 (DLVI) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 556 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.
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