| Millennium: | 1st millennium |
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| 556 by topic |
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| Leaders |
| Categories |
| Gregorian calendar | 556 DLVI |
| Ab urbe condita | 1309 |
| Armenian calendar | 5 ԹՎ Ե |
| Assyrian calendar | 5306 |
| Balinese saka calendar | 477–478 |
| Bengali calendar | −37 |
| Berber calendar | 1506 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1100 |
| Burmese calendar | −82 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6064–6065 |
| Chinese calendar | 乙亥年 (Wood Pig) 3253 or 3046 — to — 丙子年 (Fire Rat) 3254 or 3047 |
| Coptic calendar | 272–273 |
| Discordian calendar | 1722 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 548–549 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4316–4317 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 612–613 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 477–478 |
| - Kali Yuga | 3656–3657 |
| Holocene calendar | 10556 |
| Iranian calendar | 66 BP – 65 BP |
| Islamic calendar | 68 BH – 67 BH |
| Javanese calendar | 444–445 |
| Julian calendar | 556 DLVI |
| Korean calendar | 2889 |
| Minguo calendar | 1356 before ROC 民前1356年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | −912 |
| Seleucid era | 867/868 AG |
| Thai solar calendar | 1098–1099 |
| Tibetan calendar | 阴木猪年 (female Wood-Pig) 682 or 301 or −471 — to — 阳火鼠年 (male Fire-Rat) 683 or 302 or −470 |
Year 556 (DLVI) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 556 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.