561 BC

Millennium:	1st millennium BC
Centuries:	7th century BC – 6th century BC – 5th century BC
Decades:	590s BC  580s BC  570s BC  – 560s BC –  550s BC  540s BC  530s BC
Years:	564 BC 563 BC 562 BC – 561 BC – 560 BC 559 BC 558 BC

561 BC in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	561 BC
Ab urbe condita	193
Ancient Egypt era	XXVI dynasty, 104
- Pharaoh	Amasis II, 10
Ancient Greek era	54th Olympiad, year 4
Assyrian calendar	4190
Bengali calendar	−1153
Berber calendar	390
Buddhist calendar	−16
Burmese calendar	−1198
Byzantine calendar	4948–4949
Chinese calendar	己亥年 (Earth Pig) 2136 or 2076     — to — 庚子年 (Metal Rat) 2137 or 2077
Coptic calendar	−844 – −843
Discordian calendar	606
Ethiopian calendar	−568 – −567
Hebrew calendar	3200–3201
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	−504 – −503
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	2541–2542
Holocene calendar	9440
Iranian calendar	1182 BP – 1181 BP
Islamic calendar	1218 BH – 1217 BH
Julian calendar	N/A
Korean calendar	1773
Minguo calendar	2472 before ROC 民前2472年
Thai solar calendar	−18 – −17

Events

• Croesus becomes king of Lydia (or 560 BC).
• All eight solar system planets, including the now redefined dwarf planet Pluto, fall into planetary alignment.

Deaths

• Alyattes II, king of Lydia (or 560 BC)

References

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