553 BC

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* 556 BC
* 555 BC
* 554 BC
* 553 BC
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553 BC in various calendarsGregorian calendar| 553 BC
DLIII BC

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Ab urbe condita| 201
Ancient Egypt era| XXVI dynasty, 112
\- Pharaoh| Amasis II, 18
Ancient Greek Olympiad (summer)| 56th Olympiad, year 4
Assyrian calendar| 4198
Balinese saka calendar| N/A
Bengali calendar| −1146 – −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| མེ་མོ་ལུག་ལོ་
(female Fire-Sheep)
−426 or −807 or −1579
— to —
ས་ཕོ་སྤྲེ་ལོ་
(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 553 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

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

## Births

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* Itoku, emperor of Japan (d. 477 BC)

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