562 BC

Millennium:	1st millennium BC
Centuries:	7th century BC 6th century BC 5th century BC
Decades:	580s BC 570s BC 560s BC 550s BC 540s BC
Years:	565 BC 564 BC 563 BC 562 BC 561 BC 560 BC 559 BC

562 BC in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	562 BC DLXII BC
Ab urbe condita	192
Ancient Egypt era	XXVI dynasty, 103
- Pharaoh	Amasis II, 9
Ancient Greek era	54th Olympiad, year 3
Assyrian calendar	4189
Balinese saka calendar	N/A
Bengali calendar	−1154
Berber calendar	389
Buddhist calendar	−17
Burmese calendar	−1199
Byzantine calendar	4947–4948
Chinese calendar	戊戌年 (Earth Dog) 2136 or 1929     — to — 己亥年 (Earth Pig) 2137 or 1930
Coptic calendar	−845 – −844
Discordian calendar	605
Ethiopian calendar	−569 – −568
Hebrew calendar	3199–3200
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	−505 – −504
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	2539–2540
Holocene calendar	9439
Iranian calendar	1183 BP – 1182 BP
Islamic calendar	1219 BH – 1218 BH
Javanese calendar	N/A
Julian calendar	N/A
Korean calendar	1772
Minguo calendar	2473 before ROC 民前2473年
Nanakshahi calendar	−2029
Thai solar calendar	−19 – −18
Tibetan calendar	阳土狗年 (male Earth-Dog) −435 or −816 or −1588     — to — 阴土猪年 (female Earth-Pig) −434 or −815 or −1587

The year 562 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. In the Roman Empire, it was known as year 192 Ab urbe condita. The denomination 562 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

• Amel-Marduk succeeds Nebuchadnezzar II as king of Babylon.

Deaths

• Nebuchadnezzar II, emperor of the Neo-Babylonian Empire