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559 BC

Millennium: 1st millennium BC
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559 BC in various calendars
Gregorian calendar 559 BC
DLVIII BC
Ab urbe condita 195
Ancient Egypt era XXVI dynasty, 106
- Pharaoh Amasis II, 12
Ancient Greek era 55th Olympiad, year 2
Assyrian calendar 4192
Balinese saka calendar N/A
Bengali calendar −1151
Berber calendar 392
Buddhist calendar −14
Burmese calendar −1196
Byzantine calendar 4950–4951
Chinese calendar 辛丑(Metal Ox)
2138 or 2078
    — to —
壬寅年 (Water Tiger)
2139 or 2079
Coptic calendar −842 – −841
Discordian calendar 608
Ethiopian calendar −566 – −565
Hebrew calendar 3202–3203
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat −502 – −501
 - Shaka Samvat N/A
 - Kali Yuga 2542–2543
Holocene calendar 9442
Iranian calendar 1180 BP – 1179 BP
Islamic calendar 1216 BH – 1215 BH
Javanese calendar N/A
Julian calendar N/A
Korean calendar 1775
Minguo calendar 2470 before ROC
民前2470年
Nanakshahi calendar −2026
Thai solar calendar −16 – −15
Tibetan calendar 阴金牛年
(female Iron-Ox)
−432 or −813 or −1585
    — to —
阳水虎年
(male Water-Tiger)
−431 or −812 or −1584

The year 559 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. In the Roman Empire, it was known as year 195 Ab urbe condita. The denomination 559 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.



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