585 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:	588 BC 587 BC 586 BC – 585 BC – 584 BC 583 BC 582 BC

585 BC in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	585 BC
Ab urbe condita	169
Ancient Egypt era	XXVI dynasty, 80
- Pharaoh	Apries, 5
Ancient Greek era	48th Olympiad, year 4
Assyrian calendar	4166
Bengali calendar	−1177
Berber calendar	366
Buddhist calendar	−40
Burmese calendar	−1222
Byzantine calendar	4924–4925
Chinese calendar	乙亥年 (Wood Pig) 2112 or 2052     — to — 丙子年 (Fire Rat) 2113 or 2053
Coptic calendar	−868 – −867
Discordian calendar	582
Ethiopian calendar	−592 – −591
Hebrew calendar	3176–3177
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	−528 – −527
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	2517–2518
Holocene calendar	9416
Iranian calendar	1206 BP – 1205 BP
Islamic calendar	1243 BH – 1242 BH
Julian calendar	N/A
Korean calendar	1749
Minguo calendar	2496 before ROC 民前2496年
Thai solar calendar	−42 – −41

Events

• Eclipse of Thales
• Lucius Tarquinius Priscus, fifth king of Rome, defeats the Sabines in war, taking the town of Collatia and celebrating a triumph for his victory.
• King Jian of Zhou succeeds King Ding of Zhou as king of the Chinese Zhou Dynasty.
• Astyages succeeds Cyaxares as king of the Medes.

Births

• Anaximenes of Miletus, Greek philosopher (d. 528 BC)

Deaths

• Cyaxares, king of the Medes
• Nitocris I, Egyptian priestess
• Rusa IV, king of Urartu

References