544 BC

Millennium:	1st millennium BC
Centuries:	7th century BC 6th century BC 5th century BC
Decades:	560s BC 550s BC 540s BC 530s BC 520s BC
Years:	547 BC 546 BC 545 BC 544 BC 543 BC 542 BC 541 BC

544 BC in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	544 BC DXLIV BC
Ab urbe condita	210
Ancient Egypt era	XXVI dynasty, 121
- Pharaoh	Amasis II, 27
Ancient Greek era	59th Olympiad (victor)¹
Assyrian calendar	4207
Balinese saka calendar	N/A
Bengali calendar	−1136
Berber calendar	407
Buddhist calendar	1
Burmese calendar	−1181
Byzantine calendar	4965–4966
Chinese calendar	丙辰年 (Fire Dragon) 2154 or 1947     — to — 丁巳年 (Fire Snake) 2155 or 1948
Coptic calendar	−827 – −826
Discordian calendar	623
Ethiopian calendar	−551 – −550
Hebrew calendar	3217–3218
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	−487 – −486
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	2557–2558
Holocene calendar	9457
Iranian calendar	1165 BP – 1164 BP
Islamic calendar	1201 BH – 1200 BH
Javanese calendar	N/A
Julian calendar	N/A
Korean calendar	1790
Minguo calendar	2455 before ROC 民前2455年
Nanakshahi calendar	−2011
Thai solar calendar	−1 – 0
Tibetan calendar	阳火龙年 (male Fire-Dragon) −417 or −798 or −1570     — to — 阴火蛇年 (female Fire-Snake) −416 or −797 or −1569

The year 544 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. In the Roman Empire, it was known as year 210 Ab urbe condita. The denomination 544 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.

Many Buddhist traditions believe it was the year when the Buddha reached parinirvana, though the actual year 0 of the Buddhist calendar corresponds to the previous year, 545 BC.

Events

• People of Teos migrate to Abdera, Thrace to escape the yoke of Persia.
• Zhou jing wang becomes King of the Zhou Dynasty of China.

Births

• Sun Tzu, Chinese statesman and general (approximate date) (d. c. 496 BC)