516 BC

Millennium:	1st millennium BC
Centuries:	7th century BC – 6th century BC – 5th century BC
Decades:	540s BC 530s BC 520s BC – 510s BC – 500s BC 490s BC 480s BC
Years:	519 BC 518 BC 517 BC – 516 BC – 515 BC 514 BC 513 BC

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516 BC in other calendars
Gregorian calendar	516 BC
Ab urbe condita	238
Ancient Egypt era	XXVII dynasty, 10
- Pharaoh	Darius I of Persia, 6
Ancient Greek era	66th Olympiad (victor)¹
Assyrian calendar	4235
Bengali calendar	−1108
Berber calendar	435
Buddhist calendar	29
Burmese calendar	−1153
Byzantine calendar	4993–4994
Chinese calendar	甲申年 (Wood Monkey) 2181 or 2121 — to — 乙酉年 (Wood Rooster) 2182 or 2122
Coptic calendar	−799 – −798
Discordian calendar	651
Ethiopian calendar	−523 – −522
Hebrew calendar	3245–3246
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	−459 – −458
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	2586–2587
Holocene calendar	9485
Iranian calendar	1137 BP – 1136 BP
Islamic calendar	1172 BH – 1171 BH
Julian calendar	N/A
Korean calendar	1818
Minguo calendar	2427 before ROC 民前2427年
Thai solar calendar	27–28

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