537 BC

Millennium:	1st millennium BC
Centuries:	7th century BC – 6th century BC – 5th century BC
Decades:	560s BC  550s BC  540s BC  – 530s BC –  520s BC  510s BC  500s BC
Years:	540 BC 539 BC 538 BC – 537 BC – 536 BC 535 BC 534 BC

537 BC in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	537 BC DXXXVI 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
Bengali calendar	−1129
Berber calendar	414
Buddhist calendar	8
Burmese calendar	−1174
Byzantine calendar	4972–4973
Chinese calendar	癸亥年 (Water Pig) 2160 or 2100     — to — 甲子年 (Wood Rat) 2161 or 2101
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	2565–2566
Holocene calendar	9464
Iranian calendar	1158 BP – 1157 BP
Islamic calendar	1194 BH – 1193 BH
Julian calendar	N/A
Korean calendar	1797
Minguo calendar	2448 before ROC 民前2448年
Thai solar calendar	6–7

Events

By place

Judea

• The Jews lay the foundations for the Second Temple.

Deaths

• Duke Jing of Qin, ruler of the state of Qin from 576 to 537 BC