589 BC

Millennium:	1st millennium BC
Centuries:	7th century BC 6th century BC 5th century BC
Decades:	600s BC 590s BC 580s BC 570s BC 560s BC
Years:	592 BC 591 BC 590 BC 589 BC 588 BC 587 BC 586 BC

589 BC in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	589 BC DLXXXIX BC
Ab urbe condita	165
Ancient Egypt era	XXVI dynasty, 76
- Pharaoh	Apries, 1
Ancient Greek era	47th Olympiad, year 4
Assyrian calendar	4162
Balinese saka calendar	N/A
Bengali calendar	−1181
Berber calendar	362
Buddhist calendar	−44
Burmese calendar	−1226
Byzantine calendar	4920–4921
Chinese calendar	辛未年 (Metal Goat) 2109 or 1902     — to — 壬申年 (Water Monkey) 2110 or 1903
Coptic calendar	−872 – −871
Discordian calendar	578
Ethiopian calendar	−596 – −595
Hebrew calendar	3172–3173
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	−532 – −531
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	2512–2513
Holocene calendar	9412
Iranian calendar	1210 BP – 1209 BP
Islamic calendar	1247 BH – 1246 BH
Javanese calendar	N/A
Julian calendar	N/A
Korean calendar	1745
Minguo calendar	2500 before ROC 民前2500年
Nanakshahi calendar	−2056
Thai solar calendar	−46 – −45
Tibetan calendar	阴金羊年 (female Iron-Goat) −462 or −843 or −1615     — to — 阳水猴年 (male Water-Monkey) −461 or −842 or −1614

The year 589 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. In the Roman Empire, it was known as year 165 Ab urbe condita . The denomination 589 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

• Apries succeeds his father Psamtik II as king of Egypt.
• Nebuchadnezzar begins his siege of Jerusalem.

Deaths

• Psamtik II, king of Egypt