548 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:	551 BC 550 BC 549 BC 548 BC 547 BC 546 BC 545 BC

548 BC in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	548 BC DXLVIII BC
Ab urbe condita	206
Ancient Egypt era	XXVI dynasty, 117
- Pharaoh	Amasis II, 23
Ancient Greek era	58th Olympiad (victor)¹
Assyrian calendar	4203
Balinese saka calendar	N/A
Bengali calendar	−1140
Berber calendar	403
Buddhist calendar	−3
Burmese calendar	−1185
Byzantine calendar	4961–4962
Chinese calendar	壬子年 (Water Rat) 2150 or 1943     — to — 癸丑年 (Water Ox) 2151 or 1944
Coptic calendar	−831 – −830
Discordian calendar	619
Ethiopian calendar	−555 – −554
Hebrew calendar	3213–3214
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	−491 – −490
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	2553–2554
Holocene calendar	9453
Iranian calendar	1169 BP – 1168 BP
Islamic calendar	1205 BH – 1204 BH
Javanese calendar	N/A
Julian calendar	N/A
Korean calendar	1786
Minguo calendar	2459 before ROC 民前2459年
Nanakshahi calendar	−2015
Thai solar calendar	−5 – −4
Tibetan calendar	阳水鼠年 (male Water-Rat) −421 or −802 or −1574     — to — 阴水牛年 (female Water-Ox) −420 or −801 or −1573

The year 548 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. In the Roman Empire, it was known as year 206 Ab urbe condita. The denomination 548 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

• Diognetus of Croton wins the stadion race at the Olympic Games
• The Medo-Persian Empire was established after Belshazzar, the last king of Babylon, was killed. Cyrus II (a.k.a. Cyrus the Great) acceded the throne. He would remain king until 485 BC. Cyrus II may be the same person as Darius the Mede, mentioned in the Bible (Daniel 6-11), but this is not sure.
• The Temple of Apollo at Delphi, Greece was burnt. The Alcmaeonids rebuilt the structure.

Deaths

• Duke Zhuang II Ruler of Qi
• Megakles II, Athenian statesman, born 595 BC). He was the son of Alkmaion II, the grandson of Megakles I and married to Agariste of Sicyon.
• Thales (of Miletus), born c. 626 BC, a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher. He was the first natural philosopher who belonged to the Milesian school along with Anaximander and Anaximenes