534 BC

Millennium:	1st millennium BC
Centuries:	7th century BC 6th century BC 5th century BC
Decades:	550s BC 540s BC 530s BC 520s BC 510s BC
Years:	537 BC 536 BC 535 BC 534 BC 533 BC 532 BC 531 BC

534 BC in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	534 BC DXXXIV BC
Ab urbe condita	220
Ancient Egypt era	XXVI dynasty, 131
- Pharaoh	Amasis II, 37
Ancient Greek era	61st Olympiad, year 3
Assyrian calendar	4217
Balinese saka calendar	N/A
Bengali calendar	−1126
Berber calendar	417
Buddhist calendar	11
Burmese calendar	−1171
Byzantine calendar	4975–4976
Chinese calendar	丙寅年 (Fire Tiger) 2164 or 1957     — to — 丁卯年 (Fire Rabbit) 2165 or 1958
Coptic calendar	−817 – −816
Discordian calendar	633
Ethiopian calendar	−541 – −540
Hebrew calendar	3227–3228
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	−477 – −476
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	2567–2568
Holocene calendar	9467
Iranian calendar	1155 BP – 1154 BP
Islamic calendar	1190 BH – 1189 BH
Javanese calendar	N/A
Julian calendar	N/A
Korean calendar	1800
Minguo calendar	2445 before ROC 民前2445年
Nanakshahi calendar	−2001
Thai solar calendar	9–10
Tibetan calendar	阳火虎年 (male Fire-Tiger) −407 or −788 or −1560     — to — 阴火兔年 (female Fire-Rabbit) −406 or −787 or −1559

The year 534 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. In the Roman Empire, it was known as year 220 Ab urbe condita. The denomination 534 BC for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

Events

By place

Europe

• Lucius Tarquinius Superbus becomes the seventh king of Rome, after murdering his predecessor Servius Tullius.
• Competitions for tragedy are instituted at the City Dionysia festival in Athens.

Deaths

• Servius Tullius, sixth king of Rome