580 BC

Millennium:	1st millennium BC
Centuries:	7th century BC – 6th century BC – 5th century BC
Decades:	610s BC  600s BC  590s BC  – 580s BC –  570s BC  560s BC  550s BC
Years:	583 BC 582 BC 581 BC – 580 BC – 579 BC 578 BC 577 BC

580 BC in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	580 BC
Ab urbe condita	174
Ancient Egypt era	XXVI dynasty, 85
- Pharaoh	Apries, 10
Ancient Greek era	50th Olympiad (victor)¹
Assyrian calendar	4171
Bengali calendar	−1172
Berber calendar	371
Buddhist calendar	−35
Burmese calendar	−1217
Byzantine calendar	4929–4930
Chinese calendar	庚辰年 (Metal Dragon) 2117 or 2057     — to — 辛巳年 (Metal Snake) 2118 or 2058
Coptic calendar	−863 – −862
Discordian calendar	587
Ethiopian calendar	−587 – −586
Hebrew calendar	3181–3182
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	−523 – −522
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	2522–2523
Holocene calendar	9421
Iranian calendar	1201 BP – 1200 BP
Islamic calendar	1238 BH – 1237 BH
Julian calendar	N/A
Korean calendar	1754
Minguo calendar	2491 before ROC 民前2491年
Thai solar calendar	−37 – −36

Events

• Gorgon Medusa, detail of sculpture from the west pediment of the Temple of Artemis, Korkyra, is made (approximate date). It is now at the Archaeological Museum of Corfu.
• Standing Youth (Kouros) is made (approximate date). It is now at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
• Cambyses I succeeds his father Cyrus I as king of Anshan and head of the Achaemenid Dynasty.

Deaths

• Cyrus I, king of Anshan

References