568 BC

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568 BC in various calendars
Gregorian calendar 568 BC
DLXVII BC
Ab urbe condita 186
Ancient Egypt era XXVI dynasty, 97
- Pharaoh Amasis II, 3
Ancient Greek era 53rd Olympiad (victor
Assyrian calendar 4183
Balinese saka calendar N/A
Bengali calendar −1160
Berber calendar 383
Buddhist calendar −23
Burmese calendar −1205
Byzantine calendar 4941–4942
Chinese calendar 壬辰(Water  Dragon)
2129 or 2069
     to 
癸巳年 (Water  Snake)
2130 or 2070
Coptic calendar −851 – −850
Discordian calendar 599
Ethiopian calendar −575 – −574
Hebrew calendar 3193–3194
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat −511 – −510
 - Shaka Samvat N/A
 - Kali Yuga 2533–2534
Holocene calendar 9433
Iranian calendar 1189 BP – 1188 BP
Islamic calendar 1226 BH – 1225 BH
Javanese calendar N/A
Julian calendar N/A
Korean calendar 1766
Minguo calendar 2479 before ROC
民前2479年
Nanakshahi calendar −2035
Thai solar calendar −25 – −24
Tibetan calendar 阳水龙年
(male Water-Dragon)
−441 or −822 or −1594
     to 
阴水蛇年
(female Water-Snake)
−440 or −821 or −1593

The year 568 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. In the Roman Empire, it was known as year 186 Ab urbe condita . The denomination 568 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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