594 BC

Millennium:	1st millennium BC
Centuries:	7th century BC – 6th century BC – 5th century BC
Decades:	620s BC  610s BC  600s BC  – 590s BC –  580s BC  570s BC  560s BC
Years:	597 BC 596 BC 595 BC – 594 BC – 593 BC 592 BC 591 BC

594 BC in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	594 BC DXCIII BC
Ab urbe condita	160
Ancient Egypt era	XXVI dynasty, 71
- Pharaoh	Psamtik II, 2
Ancient Greek era	46th Olympiad, year 3
Assyrian calendar	4157
Bengali calendar	−1186
Berber calendar	357
Buddhist calendar	−49
Burmese calendar	−1231
Byzantine calendar	4915–4916
Chinese calendar	丙寅年 (Fire Tiger) 2103 or 2043     — to — 丁卯年 (Fire Rabbit) 2104 or 2044
Coptic calendar	−877 – −876
Discordian calendar	573
Ethiopian calendar	−601 – −600
Hebrew calendar	3167–3168
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	−537 – −536
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	2508–2509
Holocene calendar	9407
Iranian calendar	1215 BP – 1214 BP
Islamic calendar	1252 BH – 1251 BH
Julian calendar	N/A
Korean calendar	1740
Minguo calendar	2505 before ROC 民前2505年
Thai solar calendar	−51 – −50

Events

• Facing an economic crisis and popular discontent, the leaders of Athens appoint the poet-statesman Solon to implement democratic reforms and revive the city's constitution.
• Solon establishes the Ecclesia, the principal assembly of democracy in Athens during its Golden Age.
• Sappho returns from exile in Sicily.