555 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:	558 BC 557 BC 556 BC 555 BC 554 BC 553 BC 552 BC

555 BC in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	555 BC DLV BC
Ab urbe condita	199
Ancient Egypt era	XXVI dynasty, 110
- Pharaoh	Amasis II, 16
Ancient Greek era	56th Olympiad, year 2
Assyrian calendar	4196
Balinese saka calendar	N/A
Bengali calendar	−1147
Berber calendar	396
Buddhist calendar	−10
Burmese calendar	−1192
Byzantine calendar	4954–4955
Chinese calendar	乙巳年 (Wood Snake) 2143 or 1936     — to — 丙午年 (Fire Horse) 2144 or 1937
Coptic calendar	−838 – −837
Discordian calendar	612
Ethiopian calendar	−562 – −561
Hebrew calendar	3206–3207
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	−498 – −497
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	2546–2547
Holocene calendar	9446
Iranian calendar	1176 BP – 1175 BP
Islamic calendar	1212 BH – 1211 BH
Javanese calendar	N/A
Julian calendar	N/A
Korean calendar	1779
Minguo calendar	2466 before ROC 民前2466年
Nanakshahi calendar	−2022
Thai solar calendar	−12 – −11
Tibetan calendar	阴木蛇年 (female Wood-Snake) −428 or −809 or −1581     — to — 阳火马年 (male Fire-Horse) −427 or −808 or −1580

The year 555 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. In the Roman Empire, it was known as year 199 Ab urbe condita. The denomination 555 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.

Deaths

• Stesichorus, Greek lyric poet