| Millennium: | 1st millennium BC |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | 2nd century BC – 1st century BC – 1st century |
| Decades: | 120s BC 110s BC 100s BC – 90s BC – 80s BC 70s BC 60s BC |
| Years: | 100 BC 99 BC 98 BC – 97 BC – 96 BC 95 BC 94 BC |
| 97 BC by topic | |
| Politics | |
| State leaders – Sovereign states | |
| Birth and death categories | |
| Births – Deaths | |
| Establishments and disestablishments categories | |
| Establishments – Disestablishments | |
| Gregorian calendar | 97 BC |
| Ab urbe condita | 657 |
| Armenian calendar | N/A |
| Bahá'í calendar | -1940 – -1939 |
| Bengali calendar | -689 |
| Berber calendar | 854 |
| Buddhist calendar | 448 |
| Burmese calendar | -734 |
| Byzantine calendar | 5412 – 5413 |
| Chinese calendar | [[Sexagenary cycle|]]年 (2540/2600) — to —
甲年(2541/2601) |
| Coptic calendar | -380 – -379 |
| Ethiopian calendar | -104 – -103 |
| Hebrew calendar | 3664 – 3665 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Bikram Samwat | -40 – -39 |
| - Shaka Samvat | N/A |
| - Kali Yuga | 3005 – 3006 |
| Holocene calendar | 9904 |
| Iranian calendar | 718 BP – 717 BP |
| Islamic calendar | 740 BH – 739 BH |
| Japanese calendar | |
| Korean calendar | 2237 |
| Thai solar calendar | 447 |
Year 97 BC was a year of the pre-Julian calendar.