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540 BC in various calendars
Gregorian calendar
540 BC DXL BC
Ab urbe condita
214
Ancient Egypt era
XXVI dynasty, 125
- Pharaoh
Amasis II, 31
Ancient Greek era
60th Olympiad (victor)¹
Assyrian calendar
4211
Balinese saka calendar
N/A
Bengali calendar
−1132
Berber calendar
411
Buddhist calendar
5
Burmese calendar
−1177
Byzantine calendar
4969–4970
Chinese calendar
庚申年 (Metal Monkey) 2158 or 1951 — to — 辛酉年 (Metal Rooster) 2159 or 1952
Coptic calendar
−823 – −822
Discordian calendar
627
Ethiopian calendar
−547 – −546
Hebrew calendar
3221–3222
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat
−483 – −482
- Shaka Samvat
N/A
- Kali Yuga
2561–2562
Holocene calendar
9461
Iranian calendar
1161 BP – 1160 BP
Islamic calendar
1197 BH – 1196 BH
Javanese calendar
N/A
Julian calendar
N/A
Korean calendar
1794
Minguo calendar
2451 before ROC 民前2451年
Nanakshahi calendar
−2007
Thai solar calendar
3–4
Tibetan calendar
阳金猴年 (male Iron-Monkey) −413 or −794 or −1566 — to — 阴金鸡年 (female Iron-Rooster) −412 or −793 or −1565
The year 540 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. In the Roman Empire, it was known as year 214 Ab urbe condita. The denomination 540 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.
year 540BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. In the Roman Empire, it was known as year 214 Ab urbe condita. The denomination 540BC for this...
concerns the period 549 BC – 540BC. 546 BC—Croesus, Lydian king, is defeated by Cyrus of Persia near the River Halys. 546 BC—Cyrus of Persia completes...
island of Delos (approximate date). 540BC: Greek city of Elea of southern Italy founded (approximate date). 540BC: Persians conquer Lycian city of Xanthos...
transition when it became part of the Persian Achaemenid empire between 540 and 539 BC when it was captured by Cyrus the Great during his conquest of Elam...
The naval Battle of Alalia took place between 540BC and 535 BC off the coast of Corsica between Greeks and the allied Etruscans and Carthaginians. A...
the area in 542 BC and returned to Persia. After the conquest of Lydia, Cyrus campaigned in the east between around 545 BC to 540BC. Cyrus first tried...
period: c. 1500 – c. 1100 BC (Anzanite dynasty until the Babylonian invasion of Susa) Neo-Elamite period: c. 1100 – 540BC (characterized by Assyrian...
found on a Corinthian aryballos dating back to 560 BC (see figure), on a vase fragment to 540BC (see figure), and on an Etruscan carnelian scarab. An...
themselves with Carthage, whose interests also collided with the Greeks. Around 540BC, the Battle of Alalia led to a new distribution of power in the western...
island came under Carthaginian dominance around 510 BC, after that a first attempt at conquest in 540BC that ended in failure. They expanded their influence...
France) in 600 BC, Emporion (modern-day Empúries, in Catalonia, Spain) in 575 BC and Elea (modern-day Velia, in Campania, Italy) in 540BC. Phocaea was...
Leonidas I (/liˈɒnɪdəs, -dæs/; Greek: Λεωνίδας; died 11 August 480 BC) was a king of the Greek city-state of Sparta, and the 17th of the Agiad line, a...
Likya) was a historical region in Anatolia from 15–14th centuries BC (as Lukka) to 546 BC. It bordered the Mediterranean Sea in what is today the provinces...
ninth century BC, and they were very powerful during the Orientalizing Archaic periods. The Etruscans were a dominant culture in Italy by 650 BC, surpassing...
Attica, c. 540BC), the Kouros of Tenea (statue of an adolescent from Corinth, c. 560 BC) and the temple figures from Aegina (510-480 BC). Of the latter...
Attic red-figure stamnos, c. 460 BC. Theseus and the Minotaur. Side A from a black-figure Attic amphora, c. 540BC. Tondo of the Aison Cup, showing the...
conquered by Persia around 540BC, and thereafter were ruled by native tyrants, nominated by the Persian satrap in Sardis. In 499 BC, the tyrant of Miletus...
Magna Graecia. He was a six-time Olympic victor; once for boys wrestling in 540BC at the 60th Olympics, and five-time wrestling champion at the 62nd through...
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