// Workers AI · dad joke modeWhy was 536 BC a bad year? It was a dark period.

536 BC in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	536 BC DXXXVI BC
Ab urbe condita	218
Ancient Egypt era	XXVI dynasty, 129
- Pharaoh	Amasis II, 35
Ancient Greek Olympiad (summer)	61st Olympiad (victor)¹
Assyrian calendar	4215
Balinese saka calendar	N/A
Bengali calendar	−1129 – −1128
Berber calendar	415
Buddhist calendar	9
Burmese calendar	−1173
Byzantine calendar	4973–4974
Chinese calendar	甲子年 (Wood Rat) 2162 or 1955     — to — 乙丑年 (Wood Ox) 2163 or 1956
Coptic calendar	−819 – −818
Discordian calendar	631
Ethiopian calendar	−543 – −542
Hebrew calendar	3225–3226
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	−479 – −478
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	2565–2566
Holocene calendar	9465
Iranian calendar	1157 BP – 1156 BP
Islamic calendar	1193 BH – 1192 BH
Javanese calendar	N/A
Julian calendar	N/A
Korean calendar	1798
Minguo calendar	2447 before ROC 民前2447年
Nanakshahi calendar	−2003
Thai solar calendar	7–8
Tibetan calendar	ཤིང་ཕོ་བྱི་བ་ལོ་ (male Wood-Rat) −409 or −790 or −1562     — to — ཤིང་མོ་གླང་ལོ་ (female Wood-Ox) −408 or −789 or −1561

The year 536 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. In the Roman Empire, it was known as year 218 Ab urbe condita. The denomination 536 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

• Phrynaeus is appointed archon of Athens.

Births

• Min Sun, disciple of Confucius