516 BC

Millennium:	1st millennium BC
Centuries:	7th century BC 6th century BC 5th century BC
Decades:	530s BC 520s BC 510s BC 500s BC 490s BC
Years:	519 BC 518 BC 517 BC 516 BC 515 BC 514 BC 513 BC

516 BC in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	516 BC DXVI BC
Ab urbe condita	238
Ancient Egypt era	XXVII dynasty, 10
- Pharaoh	Darius I of Persia, 6
Ancient Greek era	66th Olympiad (victor)¹
Assyrian calendar	4235
Balinese saka calendar	N/A
Bengali calendar	−1108
Berber calendar	435
Buddhist calendar	29
Burmese calendar	−1153
Byzantine calendar	4993–4994
Chinese calendar	甲申年 (Wood Monkey) 2182 or 1975     — to — 乙酉年 (Wood Rooster) 2183 or 1976
Coptic calendar	−799 – −798
Discordian calendar	651
Ethiopian calendar	−523 – −522
Hebrew calendar	3245–3246
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	−459 – −458
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	2585–2586
Holocene calendar	9485
Iranian calendar	1137 BP – 1136 BP
Islamic calendar	1172 BH – 1171 BH
Javanese calendar	N/A
Julian calendar	N/A
Korean calendar	1818
Minguo calendar	2427 before ROC 民前2427年
Nanakshahi calendar	−1983
Thai solar calendar	27–28
Tibetan calendar	阳木猴年 (male Wood-Monkey) −389 or −770 or −1542     — to — 阴木鸡年 (female Wood-Rooster) −388 or −769 or −1541

The year 516 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. In the Roman Empire, it was known as year 238 Ab urbe condita . The denomination 516 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

Greece

• Cleomenes received an embassy from Maeandrius of Samos asking him for help to expel the tyrant Syloson, a puppet of the Persian Empire, which was at the time subjugating the city-states of the eastern Aegean sea.

India

• The Persian king Darius I occupies Punjab.

Deaths

• King Ping of Chu - King of the State of Chu from 528 to 516 BC