Millennium: | 1st millennium BC |
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Years: |
Gregorian calendar | 557 BC DLVI BC |
Ab urbe condita | 197 |
Ancient Egypt era | XXVI dynasty, 108 |
- Pharaoh | Amasis II, 14 |
Ancient Greek era | 55th Olympiad, year 4 |
Assyrian calendar | 4194 |
Bengali calendar | −1149 |
Berber calendar | 394 |
Buddhist calendar | −12 |
Burmese calendar | −1194 |
Byzantine calendar | 4952–4953 |
Chinese calendar |
癸卯年 (Water Rabbit) 2140 or 2080 — to — 甲辰年 (Wood Dragon) 2141 or 2081 |
Coptic calendar | −840 – −839 |
Discordian calendar | 610 |
Ethiopian calendar | −564 – −563 |
Hebrew calendar | 3204–3205 |
Hindu calendars | |
- Vikram Samvat | −500 – −499 |
- Shaka Samvat | N/A |
- Kali Yuga | 2544–2545 |
Holocene calendar | 9444 |
Iranian calendar | 1178 BP – 1177 BP |
Islamic calendar | 1214 BH – 1213 BH |
Javanese calendar | N/A |
Julian calendar | N/A |
Korean calendar | 1777 |
Minguo calendar | 2468 before ROC 民前2468年 |
Nanakshahi calendar | −2024 |
Thai solar calendar | −14 – −13 |
The year 557 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. In the Roman Empire, it was known as year 197 Ab urbe condita. The denomination 557 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.