546 BC

Millennium:	1st millennium BC
Centuries:	7th century BC – 6th century BC – 5th century BC
Decades:	570s BC 560s BC 550s BC – 540s BC – 530s BC 520s BC 510s BC
Years:	549 BC 548 BC 547 BC – 546 BC – 545 BC 544 BC 543 BC

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546 BC in other calendars
Gregorian calendar	546 BC
Ab urbe condita	208
Ancient Egypt era	XXVI dynasty, 119
- Pharaoh	Amasis II, 25
Ancient Greek era	58th Olympiad, year 3
Assyrian calendar	4205
Bengali calendar	−1138
Berber calendar	405
Buddhist calendar	−1
Burmese calendar	−1183
Byzantine calendar	4963–4964
Chinese calendar	甲寅年 (Wood Tiger) 2151 or 2091 — to — 乙卯年 (Wood Rabbit) 2152 or 2092
Coptic calendar	−829 – −828
Discordian calendar	621
Ethiopian calendar	−553 – −552
Hebrew calendar	3215–3216
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	−489 – −488
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	2556–2557
Holocene calendar	9455
Iranian calendar	1167 BP – 1166 BP
Islamic calendar	1203 BH – 1202 BH
Julian calendar	N/A
Korean calendar	1788
Minguo calendar	2457 before ROC 民前2457年
Thai solar calendar	−3 – −2

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Events

Lydia is conquered by Persia.
Cyrus makes Pasargadae the capital of Persia.
Peisistratos takes power in Athens.
Eupalinos of Megara, a Greek architect, builds aqueducts that supply water to Athens.
Cyrus establishes a garrison in Sardis and incorporates the Greek cities of Ionia in Asia Minor into the Achaemenid Empire.
A peace treaty is signed between various Chinese kingdoms.
A coup takes place in the kingdom of Qi.