559 BC

Millennium:	1st millennium BC
Centuries:	7th century BC – 6th century BC – 5th century BC
Decades:	580s BC 570s BC 560s BC – 550s BC – 540s BC 530s BC 520s BC
Years:	562 BC 561 BC 560 BC – 559 BC – 558 BC 557 BC 556 BC

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559 BC in other calendars
Gregorian calendar	559 BC
Ab urbe condita	195
Ancient Egypt era	XXVI dynasty, 106
- Pharaoh	Amasis II, 12
Ancient Greek era	55th Olympiad, year 2
Assyrian calendar	4192
Bengali calendar	−1151
Berber calendar	392
Buddhist calendar	−14
Burmese calendar	−1196
Byzantine calendar	4950–4951
Chinese calendar	辛丑年 (Metal Ox) 2138 or 2078 — to — 壬寅年 (Water Tiger) 2139 or 2079
Coptic calendar	−842 – −841
Discordian calendar	608
Ethiopian calendar	−566 – −565
Hebrew calendar	3202–3203
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	−502 – −501
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	2543–2544
Holocene calendar	9442
Iranian calendar	1180 BP – 1179 BP
Islamic calendar	1216 BH – 1215 BH
Julian calendar	N/A
Korean calendar	1775
Minguo calendar	2470 before ROC 民前2470年
Thai solar calendar	−16 – −15

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Events

Cyrus the Great succeeds his father Cambyses I of Anshan.

Births

Amitis Shahbanu, Achaemenid queen

Deaths

Cambyses I, father of Cyrus the Great and king of Anshan

References

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