580 BC

Millennium:	1st millennium BC
Centuries:	7th century BC – 6th century BC – 5th century BC
Decades:	610s BC 600s BC 590s BC – 580s BC – 570s BC 560s BC 550s BC
Years:	583 BC 582 BC 581 BC – 580 BC – 579 BC 578 BC 577 BC

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580 BC in other calendars
Gregorian calendar	580 BC
Ab urbe condita	174
Ancient Egypt era	XXVI dynasty, 85
- Pharaoh	Apries, 10
Ancient Greek era	50th Olympiad (victor)¹
Assyrian calendar	4171
Bengali calendar	−1172
Berber calendar	371
Buddhist calendar	−35
Burmese calendar	−1217
Byzantine calendar	4929–4930
Chinese calendar	庚辰年 (Metal Dragon) 2117 or 2057 — to — 辛巳年 (Metal Snake) 2118 or 2058
Coptic calendar	−863 – −862
Discordian calendar	587
Ethiopian calendar	−587 – −586
Hebrew calendar	3181–3182
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	−523 – −522
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	2522–2523
Holocene calendar	9421
Iranian calendar	1201 BP – 1200 BP
Islamic calendar	1238 BH – 1237 BH
Julian calendar	N/A
Korean calendar	1754
Minguo calendar	2491 before ROC 民前2491年
Thai solar calendar	−37 – −36

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Events

Gorgon Medusa, detail of sculpture from the west pediment of the Temple of Artemis, Korkyra, is made (approximate date). It is now at the Archaeological Museum of Corfu.
Standing Youth (Kouros) is made (approximate date). It is now at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
Cambyses I succeeds his father Cyrus I as king of Anshan and head of the Achaemenid Dynasty.