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Calendar year

Millennium:	1st millennium BC
Centuries:	7th century BC 6th century BC 5th century BC
Decades:	600s BC 590s BC 580s BC 570s BC 560s BC
Years:	583 BC 582 BC 581 BC 580 BC 579 BC 578 BC 577 BC

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580 BC in various calendars
Gregorian calendar	580 BC DLXXX BC
Ab urbe condita	174
Ancient Egypt era	XXVI dynasty, 85
- Pharaoh	Apries, 10
Ancient Greek era	50th Olympiad (victor )¹
Assyrian calendar	4171
Balinese saka calendar	N/A
Bengali calendar	−1172
Berber calendar	371
Buddhist calendar	−35
Burmese calendar	−1217
Byzantine calendar	4929–4930
Chinese calendar	庚辰年 (Metal Dragon) 2118/1911 — to — 辛巳年 (Metal Snake) 2119 or 1912
Coptic calendar	−863 – −862
Discordian calendar	587
Ethiopian calendar	−587 – −586
Hebrew calendar	3181–3182
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	−523 – −522
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	2521–2522
Holocene calendar	9421
Iranian calendar	1201 BP – 1200 BP
Islamic calendar	1238 BH – 1237 BH
Javanese calendar	N/A
Julian calendar	N/A
Korean calendar	1754
Minguo calendar	2491 before ROC 民前2491年
Nanakshahi calendar	−2047
Thai solar calendar	−37 – −36
Tibetan calendar	阳金龙年 (male Iron-Dragon) −453 or −834 or −1606 — to — 阴金蛇年 (female Iron-Snake) −452 or −833 or −1605

The year 580 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. In the Roman Empire, it was known as year 174 Ab urbe condita . The denomination 580 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※

Gorgon Medusa, detail of sculpture from the west pediment of the Temple of Artemis, Korkyra, is: made (approximate date). It is now at the Archaeological Museum of Corfu.
The Hecatompedon, a temple dedicated to Athena in Athens, was built at the site later used for the Parthenon (estimated year)
Standing Youth (Kouros) is made (approximate date). It is now at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
Cambyses I succeeds his father Cyrus I as king of Anshan and "head of the Achaemenid Dynasty."

Births※

Hystaspes, son of Teispes (estimated)

Deaths※

References※

^ Feldman, Thalia (1965). "Gorgo and the Origins of Fear". Arion: A Journal of Humanities and the Classics. 4 (3): 485. JSTOR 20162978. Retrieved February 19, 2024.
^ "History of Athens: the early period". Encyclopaedia Britannica. Retrieved February 19, 2024.
^ "Cyrus: Cyrus I". Encyclopaedia Iranica. Retrieved February 19, 2024.

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