Millennium: | 1st millennium BC |
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Years: |
Gregorian calendar | 56 BC LV BC |
Ab urbe condita | 698 |
Ancient Egypt era | XXXIII dynasty, 268 |
- Pharaoh | Ptolemy XII Auletes, 25 |
Ancient Greek era | 181st Olympiad (victor)¹ |
Assyrian calendar | 4695 |
Bengali calendar | −648 |
Berber calendar | 895 |
Buddhist calendar | 489 |
Burmese calendar | −693 |
Byzantine calendar | 5453–5454 |
Chinese calendar |
甲子年 (Wood Rat) 2641 or 2581 — to — 乙丑年 (Wood Ox) 2642 or 2582 |
Coptic calendar | −339 – −338 |
Discordian calendar | 1111 |
Ethiopian calendar | −63 – −62 |
Hebrew calendar | 3705–3706 |
Hindu calendars | |
- Vikram Samvat | 1–2 |
- Shaka Samvat | N/A |
- Kali Yuga | 3045–3046 |
Holocene calendar | 9945 |
Iranian calendar | 677 BP – 676 BP |
Islamic calendar | 698 BH – 697 BH |
Javanese calendar | N/A |
Julian calendar | N/A |
Korean calendar | 2278 |
Minguo calendar | 1967 before ROC 民前1967年 |
Nanakshahi calendar | −1523 |
Seleucid era | 256/257 AG |
Thai solar calendar | 487–488 |
Year 56 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Lentulus and Philippus (or, less frequently, year 698 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 56 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.