553 BC

Millennium:	1st millennium BC
Centuries:	7th century BC – 6th century BC – 5th century BC
Decades:	580s BC  570s BC  560s BC  – 550s BC –  540s BC  530s BC  520s BC
Years:	556 BC 555 BC 554 BC – 553 BC – 552 BC 551 BC 550 BC

553 BC in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	553 BC
Ab urbe condita	201
Ancient Egypt era	XXVI dynasty, 112
- Pharaoh	Amasis II, 18
Ancient Greek era	56th Olympiad, year 4
Assyrian calendar	4198
Bengali calendar	−1145
Berber calendar	398
Buddhist calendar	−8
Burmese calendar	−1190
Byzantine calendar	4956–4957
Chinese calendar	丁未年 (Fire Goat) 2144 or 2084     — to — 戊申年 (Earth Monkey) 2145 or 2085
Coptic calendar	−836 – −835
Discordian calendar	614
Ethiopian calendar	−560 – −559
Hebrew calendar	3208–3209
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	−496 – −495
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	2549–2550
Holocene calendar	9448
Iranian calendar	1174 BP – 1173 BP
Islamic calendar	1210 BH – 1209 BH
Julian calendar	N/A
Korean calendar	1781
Minguo calendar	2464 before ROC 民前2464年
Thai solar calendar	−10 – −9

Events

• Cyrus II of Persia revolts against Astyages of the Medes.

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Deaths

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