562 BC

Millennium:	1st millennium BC
Centuries:	7th century BC – 6th century BC – 5th century BC
Decades:	590s BC  580s BC  570s BC  – 560s BC –  550s BC  540s BC  530s BC
Years:	565 BC 564 BC 563 BC – 562 BC – 561 BC 560 BC 559 BC

562 BC in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	562 BC DLXI 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
Bengali calendar	−1154
Berber calendar	389
Buddhist calendar	−17
Burmese calendar	−1199
Byzantine calendar	4947–4948
Chinese calendar	戊戌年 (Earth Dog) 2135 or 2075     — to — 己亥年 (Earth Pig) 2136 or 2076
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	2540–2541
Holocene calendar	9439
Iranian calendar	1183 BP – 1182 BP
Islamic calendar	1219 BH – 1218 BH
Julian calendar	N/A
Korean calendar	1772
Minguo calendar	2473 before ROC 民前2473年
Thai solar calendar	−19 – −18

Events

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

Deaths

• Nebuchadnezzar II, emperor of the Neo-Babylonian Empire