581 BC

Millennium: 1st millennium BC
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581 BC in various calendars
Gregorian calendar581 BC
DLXXXI BC
Ab urbe condita173
Ancient Egypt eraXXVI dynasty, 84
- PharaohApries, 9
Ancient Greek era49th Olympiad, year 4
Assyrian calendar4170
Balinese saka calendarN/A
Bengali calendar−1173
Berber calendar370
Buddhist calendar−36
Burmese calendar−1218
Byzantine calendar4928–4929
Chinese calendar己卯年 (Earth Rabbit)
2117 or 1910
    — to —
庚辰年 (Metal Dragon)
2118 or 1911
Coptic calendar−864 – −863
Discordian calendar586
Ethiopian calendar−588 – −587
Hebrew calendar3180–3181
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat−524 – −523
 - Shaka SamvatN/A
 - Kali Yuga2520–2521
Holocene calendar9420
Iranian calendar1202 BP – 1201 BP
Islamic calendar1239 BH – 1238 BH
Javanese calendarN/A
Julian calendarN/A
Korean calendar1753
Minguo calendar2492 before ROC
民前2492年
Nanakshahi calendar−2048
Thai solar calendar−38 – −37
Tibetan calendar阴土兔年
(female Earth-Rabbit)
−454 or −835 or −1607
    — to —
阳金龙年
(male Iron-Dragon)
−453 or −834 or −1606

The year 581 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. In the Roman Empire, it was known as year 173 Ab urbe condita . The denomination 581 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.