537 BC

Calendar year

Millennium:	1st millennium BC
Centuries:	7th century BC 6th century BC 5th century BC
Decades:	550s BC 540s BC 530s BC 520s BC 510s BC
Years:	540 BC 539 BC 538 BC 537 BC 536 BC 535 BC 534 BC

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537 BC in various calendars
Gregorian calendar	537 BC DXXXVII BC
Ab urbe condita	217
Ancient Egypt era	XXVI dynasty, 128
- Pharaoh	Amasis II, 34
Ancient Greek era	60th Olympiad, year 4
Assyrian calendar	4214
Balinese saka calendar	N/A
Bengali calendar	−1129
Berber calendar	414
Buddhist calendar	8
Burmese calendar	−1174
Byzantine calendar	4972–4973
Chinese calendar	癸亥年 (Water Pig) 2161 or 1954 — to — 甲子年 (Wood Rat) 2162 or 1955
Coptic calendar	−820 – −819
Discordian calendar	630
Ethiopian calendar	−544 – −543
Hebrew calendar	3224–3225
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	−480 – −479
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	2564–2565
Holocene calendar	9464
Iranian calendar	1158 BP – 1157 BP
Islamic calendar	1194 BH – 1193 BH
Javanese calendar	N/A
Julian calendar	N/A
Korean calendar	1797
Minguo calendar	2448 before ROC 民前2448年
Nanakshahi calendar	−2004
Thai solar calendar	6–7
Tibetan calendar	阴水猪年 (female Water-Pig) −410 or −791 or −1563 — to — 阳木鼠年 (male Wood-Rat) −409 or −790 or −1562

The year 537 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. In the Roman Empire, it was known as year 217 Ab urbe condita. The denomination 537 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.