516 BC

Summary

The year 516 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. In the Roman Empire, it was known as year 238 Ab urbe condita . The denomination 516 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.

Millennium: 1st millennium BC
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516 BC in various calendars
Gregorian calendar516 BC
DXVI BC
Ab urbe condita238
Ancient Egypt eraXXVII dynasty, 10
- PharaohDarius I of Persia, 6
Ancient Greek era66th Olympiad (victor
Assyrian calendar4235
Balinese saka calendarN/A
Bengali calendar−1108
Berber calendar435
Buddhist calendar29
Burmese calendar−1153
Byzantine calendar4993–4994
Chinese calendar甲申年 (Wood Monkey)
2182 or 1975
    — to —
乙酉年 (Wood Rooster)
2183 or 1976
Coptic calendar−799 – −798
Discordian calendar651
Ethiopian calendar−523 – −522
Hebrew calendar3245–3246
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat−459 – −458
 - Shaka SamvatN/A
 - Kali Yuga2585–2586
Holocene calendar9485
Iranian calendar1137 BP – 1136 BP
Islamic calendar1172 BH – 1171 BH
Javanese calendarN/A
Julian calendarN/A
Korean calendar1818
Minguo calendar2427 before ROC
民前2427年
Nanakshahi calendar−1983
Thai solar calendar27–28
Tibetan calendar阳木猴年
(male Wood-Monkey)
−389 or −770 or −1542
    — to —
阴木鸡年
(female Wood-Rooster)
−388 or −769 or −1541

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Greece edit

  • Cleomenes received an embassy from Maeandrius of Samos asking him for help to expel the tyrant Syloson, a puppet of the Persian Empire, which was at the time subjugating the city-states of the eastern Aegean sea.

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