553 BC

Millennium:	1st millennium BC
Centuries:	7th century BC 6th century BC 5th century BC
Decades:	570s BC 560s BC 550s BC 540s BC 530s BC
Years:	556 BC 555 BC 554 BC 553 BC 552 BC 551 BC 550 BC

553 BC in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	553 BC DLIII BC
Ab urbe condita	201
Ancient Egypt era	XXVI dynasty, 112
- Pharaoh	Amasis II, 18
Ancient Greek era	56th Olympiad, year 4
Assyrian calendar	4198
Balinese saka calendar	N/A
Bengali calendar	−1145
Berber calendar	398
Buddhist calendar	−8
Burmese calendar	−1190
Byzantine calendar	4956–4957
Chinese calendar	丁未年 (Fire Goat) 2145 or 1938     — to — 戊申年 (Earth Monkey) 2146 or 1939
Coptic calendar	−836 – −835
Discordian calendar	614
Ethiopian calendar	−560 – −559
Hebrew calendar	3208–3209
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	−496 – −495
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	2548–2549
Holocene calendar	9448
Iranian calendar	1174 BP – 1173 BP
Islamic calendar	1210 BH – 1209 BH
Javanese calendar	N/A
Julian calendar	N/A
Korean calendar	1781
Minguo calendar	2464 before ROC 民前2464年
Nanakshahi calendar	−2020
Thai solar calendar	−10 – −9
Tibetan calendar	阴火羊年 (female Fire-Goat) −426 or −807 or −1579     — to — 阳土猴年 (male Earth-Monkey) −425 or −806 or −1578

The year 553 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. In the Roman Empire, it was known as year 201 Ab urbe condita. The denomination 552 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

• Cyrus II of Persia revolts against Astyages of the Medes.

Births

• Itoku, emperor of Japan (d. 477 BC)