559 BC

Millennium:	1st millennium BC
Centuries:	7th century BC 6th century BC 5th century BC
Decades:	570s BC 560s BC 550s BC 540s BC 530s BC
Years:	562 BC 561 BC 560 BC 559 BC 558 BC 557 BC 556 BC

559 BC in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	559 BC DLIX BC
Ab urbe condita	195
Ancient Egypt era	XXVI dynasty, 106
- Pharaoh	Amasis II, 12
Ancient Greek era	55th Olympiad, year 2
Assyrian calendar	4192
Balinese saka calendar	N/A
Bengali calendar	−1151
Berber calendar	392
Buddhist calendar	−14
Burmese calendar	−1196
Byzantine calendar	4950–4951
Chinese calendar	辛丑年 (Metal Ox) 2139 or 1932     — to — 壬寅年 (Water Tiger) 2140 or 1933
Coptic calendar	−842 – −841
Discordian calendar	608
Ethiopian calendar	−566 – −565
Hebrew calendar	3202–3203
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	−502 – −501
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	2542–2543
Holocene calendar	9442
Iranian calendar	1180 BP – 1179 BP
Islamic calendar	1216 BH – 1215 BH
Javanese calendar	N/A
Julian calendar	N/A
Korean calendar	1775
Minguo calendar	2470 before ROC 民前2470年
Nanakshahi calendar	−2026
Thai solar calendar	−16 – −15
Tibetan calendar	阴金牛年 (female Iron-Ox) −432 or −813 or −1585     — to — 阳水虎年 (male Water-Tiger) −431 or −812 or −1584

The year 559 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. In the Roman Empire, it was known as year 195 Ab urbe condita. The denomination 559 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.

Events

• Cyrus the Great succeeds his father Cambyses I of Anshan.
• In the year of his accession (560–559 BC), the Babylonian king Neriglissar commands the declaration of an intercalendary month, so that his first year of kingship begins on Nisan 1 of 559 BC.

Births

• Amitis Shahbanu, Achaemenid queen

Deaths

• Cambyses I, father of Cyrus the Great and king of Anshan