542 BC
| Millennium: | 1st millennium BC |
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| Centuries: | 7th century BC · 6th century BC · 5th century BC |
| Decades: | 570s BC · 560s BC · 550s BC · 540s BC · 530s BC · 520s BC · 510s BC |
| Years: | 545 BC · 544 BC · 543 BC · 542 BC · 541 BC · 540 BC · 539 BC |
| 542 BC by topic |
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| Gregorian calendar | 542 BC DXLI BC |
| Ab urbe condita | 212 |
| Ancient Egypt era | XXVI dynasty, 123 |
| - Pharaoh | Amasis II, 29 |
| Ancient Greek era | 59th Olympiad, year 3 |
| Assyrian calendar | 4209 |
| Bengali calendar | −1134 |
| Berber calendar | 409 |
| Buddhist calendar | 3 |
| Burmese calendar | −1179 |
| Byzantine calendar | 4967–4968 |
| Chinese calendar | 戊午年 (Earth Horse) 2155 or 2095 — to — 己未年 (Earth Goat) 2156 or 2096 |
| Coptic calendar | −825 – −824 |
| Discordian calendar | 625 |
| Ethiopian calendar | −549 – −548 |
| Hebrew calendar | 3219–3220 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | −485 – −484 |
| - Shaka Samvat | N/A |
| - Kali Yuga | 2559–2560 |
| Holocene calendar | 9459 |
| Iranian calendar | 1163 BP – 1162 BP |
| Islamic calendar | 1199 BH – 1198 BH |
| Javanese calendar | N/A |
| Julian calendar | N/A |
| Korean calendar | 1792 |
| Minguo calendar | 2453 before ROC 民前2453年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | −2009 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1–2 |
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The year 542 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. In the Roman Empire, it was known as year 212 Ab urbe condita. The denomination 542 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.
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