522 BC

522 BC in various calendars
Gregorian calendar	522 BC; DXXII BC
Ab urbe condita	232
Ancient Egypt era	XXVII dynasty, 4
- Pharaoh	Cambyses II of Persia, 4
Ancient Greek Olympiad (summer)	64th Olympiad, year 3
Assyrian calendar	4229
Balinese saka calendar	N/A
Bengali calendar	−1115 – −1114
Berber calendar	429
Buddhist calendar	23
Burmese calendar	−1159
Byzantine calendar	4987–4988
Chinese calendar	戊寅年 (Earth Tiger); 2176 or 1969; — to —; 己卯年 (Earth Rabbit); 2177 or 1970
Coptic calendar	−805 – −804
Discordian calendar	645
Ethiopian calendar	−529 – −528
Hebrew calendar	3239–3240
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	−465 – −464
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	2579–2580
Holocene calendar	9479
Iranian calendar	1143 BP – 1142 BP
Islamic calendar	1178 BH – 1177 BH
Javanese calendar	N/A
Julian calendar	N/A
Korean calendar	1812
Minguo calendar	2433 before ROC; 民前2433年
Nanakshahi calendar	−1989
Thai solar calendar	21–22
Tibetan calendar	ས་ཕོ་སྟག་ལོ་; (male Earth-Tiger); −395 or −776 or −1548; — to —; ས་མོ་ཡོས་ལོ་; (female Earth-Hare); −394 or −775 or −1547

The year 522 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. In the Roman Empire, it was known as year 232 Ab urbe condita. The denomination 522 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

By place

Persian Empire

Bardiya succeeds Cambyses II as ruler of Persia.^[1]
Babylon rebels against Persian rule.^[2]
December – Darius I succeeds Bardiya as ruler of Persia. He is the son of a government official.^[1]

Births

Pindar, Greek poet^[3]
Ran Qiu, leading disciple of Confucius^[4]
Ran Yong, leading disciple of Confucius^[4]
Shang Qu, disciple of Confucius^[5]
Zai Yu, leading disciple of Confucius^[6]

Deaths

July – Cambyses II, ruler of ancient Persia^{[citation needed]}
29 September – Bardiya, ruler of ancient Persia^[7]
Polycrates, tyrant of Samos
Zichan, statesman of the State of Zheng

References

1 2 Briant, Pierre (2002). From Cyrus to Alexander: A History of the Persian Empire. Eisenbrauns. p. 98.
↑ Dandamaev, Muhammad A. (1989). A Political History of the Achaemenid Empire. BRILL. p. 116. ISBN 978-9004091726.
↑ Gerber, Douglas E. (1997). A Companion to the Greek lyric poets. Brill. p. 253. ISBN 90-04-09944-1.
1 2 Confucius (1997). The Analects of Confucius. Oxford University Press. pp. 202–3. ISBN 978-0-19-506157-4.
↑ Han, Zhaoqi (2010). "Biographies of the Disciples of Confucius". Shiji 史记 (in Chinese). Beijing: Zhonghua Book Company. pp. 4621–3. ISBN 978-7-101-07272-3.
↑ Taylor, Rodney Leon; Choy, Howard Yuen Fung (2005). The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Confucianism: A–M. The Rosen Publishing Group. p. 621. ISBN 978-0-8239-4080-6.
↑ Potts, D. T. (2023), "The Persian Empire under the Achaemenid Dynasty, from Darius I to Darius III" (PDF), in Radner, Karen; Moeller, Nadine; Potts, D. T. (eds.), The Oxford History of the Ancient Near East, vol. V, New York: Oxford University Press, p. 435, doi:10.1093/oso/9780190687663.003.0055, ISBN 978-0-19-068766-3, retrieved 2026-07-07

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[Briant-1] 1 2 Briant, Pierre (2002). From Cyrus to Alexander: A History of the Persian Empire. Eisenbrauns. p. 98.

[2] Dandamaev, Muhammad A. (1989). A Political History of the Achaemenid Empire. BRILL. p. 116. ISBN 978-9004091726.

[3] Gerber, Douglas E. (1997). A Companion to the Greek lyric poets. Brill. p. 253. ISBN 90-04-09944-1.

[confucius-4] 1 2 Confucius (1997). The Analects of Confucius. Oxford University Press. pp. 202–3. ISBN 978-0-19-506157-4.

[5] Han, Zhaoqi (2010). "Biographies of the Disciples of Confucius". Shiji 史记 (in Chinese). Beijing: Zhonghua Book Company. pp. 4621–3. ISBN 978-7-101-07272-3.

[6] Taylor, Rodney Leon; Choy, Howard Yuen Fung (2005). The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Confucianism: A–M. The Rosen Publishing Group. p. 621. ISBN 978-0-8239-4080-6.

[7] Potts, D. T. (2023), "The Persian Empire under the Achaemenid Dynasty, from Darius I to Darius III" (PDF), in Radner, Karen; Moeller, Nadine; Potts, D. T. (eds.), The Oxford History of the Ancient Near East, vol. V, New York: Oxford University Press, p. 435, doi:10.1093/oso/9780190687663.003.0055, ISBN 978-0-19-068766-3, retrieved 2026-07-07

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