// Workers AI · dad joke modeWhy was 577 BC a bad year? It had a lot of "B.C." - bad circumstances.

577 BC in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	577 BC DLXXVII BC
Ab urbe condita	177
Ancient Egypt era	XXVI dynasty, 88
- Pharaoh	Apries, 13
Ancient Greek Olympiad (summer)	50th Olympiad, year 4
Assyrian calendar	4174
Balinese saka calendar	N/A
Bengali calendar	−1170 – −1169
Berber calendar	374
Buddhist calendar	−32
Burmese calendar	−1214
Byzantine calendar	4932–4933
Chinese calendar	癸未年 (Water Goat) 2121 or 1914     — to — 甲申年 (Wood Monkey) 2122 or 1915
Coptic calendar	−860 – −859
Discordian calendar	590
Ethiopian calendar	−584 – −583
Hebrew calendar	3184–3185
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	−520 – −519
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	2524–2525
Holocene calendar	9424
Iranian calendar	1198 BP – 1197 BP
Islamic calendar	1235 BH – 1234 BH
Javanese calendar	N/A
Julian calendar	N/A
Korean calendar	1757
Minguo calendar	2488 before ROC 民前2488年
Nanakshahi calendar	−2044
Thai solar calendar	−34 – −33
Tibetan calendar	ཆུ་མོ་ལུག་ལོ་ (female Water-Sheep) −450 or −831 or −1603     — to — ཤིང་ཕོ་སྤྲེ་ལོ་ (male Wood-Monkey) −449 or −830 or −1602

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The year 577 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. In the Roman Empire, it was known as year 177 Ab urbe condita. The denomination 577 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

September or October (3rd of Tishrey): Gedaliah, son of Achikam, murdered by Ishmael, son of Kerach in Mizpa, Judea (Babylonian Empire).

Deaths

• Duke Huan of Qin, Chinese ruler