566 BC

Millennium:	1st millennium BC
Centuries:	7th century BC – 6th century BC – 5th century BC
Decades:	590s BC 580s BC 570s BC – 560s BC – 550s BC 540s BC 530s BC
Years:	569 BC 568 BC 567 BC – 566 BC – 565 BC 564 BC 563 BC

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566 BC in other calendars
Gregorian calendar	566 BC
Ab urbe condita	188
Ancient Egypt era	XXVI dynasty, 99
- Pharaoh	Amasis II, 5
Ancient Greek era	53rd Olympiad, year 3
Assyrian calendar	4185
Bengali calendar	−1158
Berber calendar	385
Buddhist calendar	−21
Burmese calendar	−1203
Byzantine calendar	4943–4944
Chinese calendar	甲午年 (Wood Horse) 2131 or 2071 — to — 乙未年 (Wood Goat) 2132 or 2072
Coptic calendar	−849 – −848
Discordian calendar	601
Ethiopian calendar	−573 – −572
Hebrew calendar	3195–3196
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	−509 – −508
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	2536–2537
Holocene calendar	9435
Iranian calendar	1187 BP – 1186 BP
Islamic calendar	1223 BH – 1222 BH
Julian calendar	N/A
Korean calendar	1768
Minguo calendar	2477 before ROC 民前2477年
Thai solar calendar	−23 – −22

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