542 BC

Millennium:	1st millennium BC
Centuries:	7th century BC – 6th century BC – 5th century BC
Decades:	570s BC  560s BC  550s BC  – 540s BC –  530s BC  520s BC  510s BC
Years:	545 BC 544 BC 543 BC – 542 BC – 541 BC 540 BC 539 BC

542 BC in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	542 BC
Ab urbe condita	212
Ancient Egypt era	XXVI dynasty, 123
- Pharaoh	Amasis II, 29
Ancient Greek era	59th Olympiad, year 3
Assyrian calendar	4209
Bengali calendar	−1134
Berber calendar	409
Buddhist calendar	3
Burmese calendar	−1179
Byzantine calendar	4967–4968
Chinese calendar	戊午年 (Earth Horse) 2155 or 2095     — to — 己未年 (Earth Goat) 2156 or 2096
Coptic calendar	−825 – −824
Discordian calendar	625
Ethiopian calendar	−549 – −548
Hebrew calendar	3219–3220
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	−485 – −484
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	2560–2561
Holocene calendar	9459
Iranian calendar	1163 BP – 1162 BP
Islamic calendar	1199 BH – 1198 BH
Julian calendar	N/A
Korean calendar	1792
Minguo calendar	2453 before ROC 民前2453年
Thai solar calendar	1–2

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