591 BC

Calendar year

Millennium:	1st millennium BC
Centuries:	7th century BC 6th century BC 5th century BC
Decades:	610s BC 600s BC 590s BC 580s BC 570s BC
Years:	594 BC 593 BC 592 BC 591 BC 590 BC 589 BC 588 BC

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591 BC in various calendars
Gregorian calendar	591 BC DXCI BC
Ab urbe condita	163
Ancient Egypt era	XXVI dynasty, 74
- Pharaoh	Psamtik II, 5
Ancient Greek era	47th Olympiad, year 2
Assyrian calendar	4160
Balinese saka calendar	N/A
Bengali calendar	−1183
Berber calendar	360
Buddhist calendar	−46
Burmese calendar	−1228
Byzantine calendar	4918–4919
Chinese calendar	己巳年 (Earth Snake) 2107 or 1900 — to — 庚午年 (Metal Horse) 2108 or 1901
Coptic calendar	−874 – −873
Discordian calendar	576
Ethiopian calendar	−598 – −597
Hebrew calendar	3170–3171
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	−534 – −533
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	2510–2511
Holocene calendar	9410
Iranian calendar	1212 BP – 1211 BP
Islamic calendar	1249 BH – 1248 BH
Javanese calendar	N/A
Julian calendar	N/A
Korean calendar	1743
Minguo calendar	2502 before ROC 民前2502年
Nanakshahi calendar	−2058
Thai solar calendar	−48 – −47
Tibetan calendar	阴土蛇年 (female Earth-Snake) −464 or −845 or −1617 — to — 阳金马年 (male Iron-Horse) −463 or −844 or −1616

The year 591 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. In the Roman Empire, it was known as year 163 Ab urbe condita . The denomination 591 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.