522 BC

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.

Millennium:	1st millennium BC
Centuries:	7th century BC 6th century BC 5th century BC
Decades:	540s BC 530s BC 520s BC 510s BC 500s BC
Years:	525 BC 524 BC 523 BC 522 BC 521 BC 520 BC 519 BC

522 BC in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	522 BC DXXI BC
Ab urbe condita	232
Ancient Egypt era	XXVII dynasty, 4
- Pharaoh	Cambyses II of Persia, 4
Ancient Greek era	64th Olympiad, year 3
Assyrian calendar	4229
Balinese saka calendar	N/A
Bengali calendar	−1114
Berber calendar	429
Buddhist calendar	23
Burmese calendar	−1159
Byzantine calendar	4987–4988
Chinese calendar	戊寅年 (Earth Tiger) 2175 or 2115     — to — 己卯年 (Earth Rabbit) 2176 or 2116
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	阳土虎年 (male Earth-Tiger) −395 or −776 or −1548     — to — 阴土兔年 (female Earth-Rabbit) −394 or −775 or −1547

Events

Persian Empire

• Bardiya succeeds Cambyses II as ruler of Persia.[1]
• Babylon rebels against Persian rule.[2]
• 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
• September – Bardiya, ruler of ancient Persia
• Polycrates, tyrant of Samos
• Zichan, statesman of the State of Zheng

References

1. 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.
4. 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.