# 556 BC

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Calendar year

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556 BC in various calendars Gregorian calendar 556 BC DLVI BC Ab urbe condita 198 Ancient Egypt era XXVI dynasty, 109 - Pharaoh Amasis II, 15 Ancient Greek Olympiad (summer) 56th Olympiad (victor)¹ Assyrian calendar 4195 Balinese saka calendar N/A Bengali calendar −1149 – −1148 Berber calendar 395 Buddhist calendar −11 Burmese calendar −1193 Byzantine calendar 4953–4954 Chinese calendar 甲辰年 (Wood Dragon) 2142 or 1935 — to — 乙巳年 (Wood Snake) 2143 or 1936 Coptic calendar −839 – −838 Discordian calendar 611 Ethiopian calendar −563 – −562 Hebrew calendar 3205–3206 Hindu calendars - Vikram Samvat −499 – −498 - Shaka Samvat N/A - Kali Yuga 2545–2546 Holocene calendar 9445 Iranian calendar 1177 BP – 1176 BP Islamic calendar 1213 BH – 1212 BH Javanese calendar N/A Julian calendar N/A Korean calendar 1778 Minguo calendar 2467 before ROC 民前2467年 Nanakshahi calendar −2023 Thai solar calendar −13 – −12 Tibetan calendar ཤིང་ཕོ་འབྲུག་ལོ་ (male Wood-Dragon) −429 or −810 or −1582 — to — ཤིང་མོ་སྦྲུལ་ལོ་ (female Wood-Snake) −428 or −809 or −1581

The year **556 BC** was a year of the [pre-Julian Roman calendar](/source/Roman_calendar). In the [Roman Empire](/source/Roman_Empire), it was known as **year 198 *[Ab urbe condita](/source/Ab_urbe_condita)***. The denomination 556 BC for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the [Anno Domini](/source/Anno_Domini) [calendar era](/source/Calendar_era) became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

## Events

- [Labashi-Marduk](/source/Labashi-Marduk) succeeds [Neriglissar](/source/Neriglissar) as king of [Babylon](/source/Babylon).

- [Pisistratus](/source/Pisistratus) is expelled to [Euboea](/source/Euboea) from [Athens](/source/Athens), and makes his fortune from [Thrace](/source/Thrace)'s mines.

- [Nabonidus](/source/Nabonidus) succeeds Labashi-Marduk as king of [Babylon](/source/Babylon).

## Births

- [Simonides of Ceos](/source/Simonides_of_Ceos),[1] approximate date

## Deaths

- [Labashi-Marduk](/source/Labashi-Marduk), king of [Babylon](/source/Babylon)

- [Neriglissar](/source/Neriglissar), king of [Babylon](/source/Babylon)

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** *Suda*, Simonides (1st notice), translated by D. Campbell, *Greek Lyric III*, Loeb Classical Library (1991), page 331.

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