541 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
Years:	544 BC 543 BC 542 BC 541 BC 540 BC 539 BC 538 BC

541 BC in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	541 BC DXLI BC
Ab urbe condita	213
Ancient Egypt era	XXVI dynasty, 124
- Pharaoh	Amasis II, 30
Ancient Greek era	59th Olympiad, year 4
Assyrian calendar	4210
Balinese saka calendar	N/A
Bengali calendar	−1133
Berber calendar	410
Buddhist calendar	4
Burmese calendar	−1178
Byzantine calendar	4968–4969
Chinese calendar	己未年 (Earth Goat) 2157 or 1950     — to — 庚申年 (Metal Monkey) 2158 or 1951
Coptic calendar	−824 – −823
Discordian calendar	626
Ethiopian calendar	−548 – −547
Hebrew calendar	3220–3221
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	−484 – −483
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	2560–2561
Holocene calendar	9460
Iranian calendar	1162 BP – 1161 BP
Islamic calendar	1198 BH – 1197 BH
Javanese calendar	N/A
Julian calendar	N/A
Korean calendar	1793
Minguo calendar	2452 before ROC 民前2452年
Nanakshahi calendar	−2008
Thai solar calendar	2–3
Tibetan calendar	阴土羊年 (female Earth-Goat) −414 or −795 or −1567     — to — 阳金猴年 (male Iron-Monkey) −413 or −794 or −1566

The year 541 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. In the Roman Empire, it was known as year 213 Ab urbe condita. The denomination 541 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

• Cyrus the Great, king of the Persian Empire, conquers the Lydian kingdom of Croesus.

Deaths

• Jia'ao, Chinese king of Chu