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| Millennium: | 1st millennium |
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| Years: |
| 259 by topic |
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| Leaders |
| Categories |
| Gregorian calendar | 259 CCLIX |
| Ab urbe condita | 1012 |
| Assyrian calendar | 5009 |
| Balinese saka calendar | 180–181 |
| Bengali calendar | −334 |
| Berber calendar | 1209 |
| Buddhist calendar | 803 |
| Burmese calendar | −379 |
| Byzantine calendar | 5767–5768 |
| Chinese calendar | 戊寅年 (Earth Tiger) 2956 or 2749 — to — 己卯年 (Earth Rabbit) 2957 or 2750 |
| Coptic calendar | −25 – −24 |
| Discordian calendar | 1425 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 251–252 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4019–4020 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 315–316 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 180–181 |
| - Kali Yuga | 3359–3360 |
| Holocene calendar | 10259 |
| Iranian calendar | 363 BP – 362 BP |
| Islamic calendar | 374 BH – 373 BH |
| Javanese calendar | 138–139 |
| Julian calendar | 259 CCLIX |
| Korean calendar | 2592 |
| Minguo calendar | 1653 before ROC 民前1653年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | −1209 |
| Seleucid era | 570/571 AG |
| Thai solar calendar | 801–802 |
| Tibetan calendar | 阳土虎年 (male Earth-Tiger) 385 or 4 or −768 — to — 阴土兔年 (female Earth-Rabbit) 386 or 5 or −767 |
Year 259 (CCLIX) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Aemilianus and Bassus (or, less frequently, year 1012 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 259 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.