557 BC

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557 BC in various calendars
Gregorian calendar 557 BC
DLVII BC
Ab urbe condita 197
Ancient Egypt era XXVI dynasty, 108
- Pharaoh Amasis II, 14
Ancient Greek Olympiad (summer) 55th Olympiad, year 4
Assyrian calendar 4194
Balinese saka calendar N/A
Bengali calendar −1150 – −1149
Berber calendar 394
Buddhist calendar −12
Burmese calendar −1194
Byzantine calendar 4952–4953
Chinese calendar 癸卯年 (Water  Rabbit)
2141 or 1934
     to 
甲辰年 (Wood  Dragon)
2142 or 1935
Coptic calendar −840 – −839
Discordian calendar 610
Ethiopian calendar −564 – −563
Hebrew calendar 3204–3205
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat −500 – −499
 - Shaka Samvat N/A
 - Kali Yuga 2544–2545
Holocene calendar 9444
Iranian calendar 1178 BP – 1177 BP
Islamic calendar 1214 BH – 1213 BH
Javanese calendar N/A
Julian calendar N/A
Korean calendar 1777
Minguo calendar 2468 before ROC
民前2468年
Nanakshahi calendar −2024
Thai solar calendar −14 – −13
Tibetan calendar 阴水兔年
(female Water-Rabbit)
−430 or −811 or −1583
     to 
阳木龙年
(male Wood-Dragon)
−429 or −810 or −1582

The year 557 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. In the Roman Empire, it was known as year 197 Ab urbe condita . The denomination 557 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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