568 BC

Millennium:	1st millennium BC
Centuries:	7th century BC · 6th century BC · 5th century BC
Decades:	590s BC · 580s BC · 570s BC · 560s BC · 550s BC · 540s BC · 530s BC
Years:	571 BC · 570 BC · 569 BC · 568 BC · 567 BC · 566 BC · 565 BC

568 BC in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	568 BC DLXVII BC
Ab urbe condita	186
Ancient Egypt era	XXVI dynasty, 97
- Pharaoh	Amasis II, 3
Ancient Greek era	53rd Olympiad (victor)¹
Assyrian calendar	4183
Bengali calendar	−1160
Berber calendar	383
Buddhist calendar	−23
Burmese calendar	−1205
Byzantine calendar	4941–4942
Chinese calendar	壬辰年 (Water Dragon) 2129 or 2069     — to — 癸巳年 (Water Snake) 2130 or 2070
Coptic calendar	−851 – −850
Discordian calendar	599
Ethiopian calendar	−575 – −574
Hebrew calendar	3193–3194
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	−511 – −510
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	2533–2534
Holocene calendar	9433
Iranian calendar	1189 BP – 1188 BP
Islamic calendar	1226 BH – 1225 BH
Javanese calendar	N/A
Julian calendar	N/A
Korean calendar	1766
Minguo calendar	2479 before ROC 民前2479年
Nanakshahi calendar	−2035
Thai solar calendar	−25 – −24

The year 568 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. In the Roman Empire, it was known as year 186 Ab urbe condita. The denomination 568 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

• Amtalqa succeeds his brother Aspelta as king of Kush.

Deaths

• Pittacus of Mytilene, one of the Seven Sages of Greece
• Aspelta, king of Kush

References