512 BC

Millennium: 1st millennium BC
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512 BC in various calendars
Gregorian calendar512 BC
DXII BC
Ab urbe condita242
Ancient Egypt eraXXVII dynasty, 14
- PharaohDarius I of Persia, 10
Ancient Greek era67th Olympiad (victor
Assyrian calendar4239
Balinese saka calendarN/A
Bengali calendar−1104
Berber calendar439
Buddhist calendar33
Burmese calendar−1149
Byzantine calendar4997–4998
Chinese calendar戊子年 (Earth Rat)
2186 or 1979
    — to —
己丑年 (Earth Ox)
2187 or 1980
Coptic calendar−795 – −794
Discordian calendar655
Ethiopian calendar−519 – −518
Hebrew calendar3249–3250
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat−455 – −454
 - Shaka SamvatN/A
 - Kali Yuga2589–2590
Holocene calendar9489
Iranian calendar1133 BP – 1132 BP
Islamic calendar1168 BH – 1167 BH
Javanese calendarN/A
Julian calendarN/A
Korean calendar1822
Minguo calendar2423 before ROC
民前2423年
Nanakshahi calendar−1979
Thai solar calendar31–32
Tibetan calendar阳土鼠年
(male Earth-Rat)
−385 or −766 or −1538
    — to —
阴土牛年
(female Earth-Ox)
−384 or −765 or −1537
Statue of Sun Tzu (544–496 BC)

The year 512 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. In the Roman Empire, it was known as year 242 Ab urbe condita . The denomination 512 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.