54 BC

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54 BC in various calendars
Gregorian calendar 54 BC
LIII BC
Ab urbe condita 700
Ancient Egypt era XXXIII dynasty, 270
- Pharaoh Ptolemy XII Auletes, 27
Ancient Greek era 181st Olympiad, year 3
Assyrian calendar 4697
Balinese saka calendar N/A
Bengali calendar −646
Berber calendar 897
Buddhist calendar 491
Burmese calendar −691
Byzantine calendar 5455–5456
Chinese calendar 丙寅年 (Fire  Tiger)
2643 or 2583
     to 
丁卯年 (Fire  Rabbit)
2644 or 2584
Coptic calendar −337 – −336
Discordian calendar 1113
Ethiopian calendar −61 – −60
Hebrew calendar 3707–3708
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat 3–4
 - Shaka Samvat N/A
 - Kali Yuga 3047–3048
Holocene calendar 9947
Iranian calendar 675 BP – 674 BP
Islamic calendar 696 BH – 695 BH
Javanese calendar N/A
Julian calendar N/A
Korean calendar 2280
Minguo calendar 1965 before ROC
民前1965年
Nanakshahi calendar −1521
Seleucid era 258/259 AG
Thai solar calendar 489–490
Tibetan calendar 阳火虎年
(male Fire-Tiger)
73 or −308 or −1080
     to 
阴火兔年
(female Fire-Rabbit)
74 or −307 or −1079

Year 54 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Appius and Ahenobarbus (or, less frequently, year 700 Ab urbe condita ). The denomination 54 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.

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