561 BC

561 BC in various calendars
Gregorian calendar	561 BC; DLXI BC
Ab urbe condita	193
Ancient Egypt era	XXVI dynasty, 104
- Pharaoh	Amasis II, 10
Ancient Greek Olympiad (summer)	54th Olympiad, year 4
Assyrian calendar	4190
Balinese saka calendar	N/A
Bengali calendar	−1154 – −1153
Berber calendar	390
Buddhist calendar	−16
Burmese calendar	−1198
Byzantine calendar	4948–4949
Chinese calendar	己亥年 (Earth Pig); 2137 or 1930; — to —; 庚子年 (Metal Rat); 2138 or 1931
Coptic calendar	−844 – −843
Discordian calendar	606
Ethiopian calendar	−568 – −567
Hebrew calendar	3200–3201
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	−504 – −503
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	2540–2541
Holocene calendar	9440
Iranian calendar	1182 BP – 1181 BP
Islamic calendar	1218 BH – 1217 BH
Javanese calendar	N/A
Julian calendar	N/A
Korean calendar	1773
Minguo calendar	2472 before ROC; 民前2472年
Nanakshahi calendar	−2028
Thai solar calendar	−18 – −17
Tibetan calendar	ས་མོ་ཕག་ལོ་; (female Earth-Boar); −434 or −815 or −1587; — to —; ལྕགས་ཕོ་བྱི་བ་ལོ་; (male Iron-Rat); −433 or −814 or −1586

The year 561 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. In the Roman Empire, it was known as year 193 Ab urbe condita.^[1] The denomination 561 BC for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.^[2]

Quick facts

Events