516 BC

Millennium: 1st millennium BC
Centuries:
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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

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.