579 BC

Millennium: 1st millennium BC
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579 BC in various calendars
Gregorian calendar579 BC
DLXXIX BC
Ab urbe condita175
Ancient Egypt eraXXVI dynasty, 86
- PharaohApries, 11
Ancient Greek era50th Olympiad, year 2
Assyrian calendar4172
Balinese saka calendarN/A
Bengali calendar−1171
Berber calendar372
Buddhist calendar−34
Burmese calendar−1216
Byzantine calendar4930–4931
Chinese calendar辛巳年 (Metal Snake)
2119 or 1912
    — to —
壬午年 (Water Horse)
2120 or 1913
Coptic calendar−862 – −861
Discordian calendar588
Ethiopian calendar−586 – −585
Hebrew calendar3182–3183
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat−522 – −521
 - Shaka SamvatN/A
 - Kali Yuga2522–2523
Holocene calendar9422
Iranian calendar1200 BP – 1199 BP
Islamic calendar1237 BH – 1236 BH
Javanese calendarN/A
Julian calendarN/A
Korean calendar1755
Minguo calendar2490 before ROC
民前2490年
Nanakshahi calendar−2046
Thai solar calendar−36 – −35
Tibetan calendar阴金蛇年
(female Iron-Snake)
−452 or −833 or −1605
    — to —
阳水马年
(male Water-Horse)
−451 or −832 or −1604

The year 579 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. In the Roman Empire, it was known as year 175 Ab urbe condita . The denomination 579 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.