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[[File:Kapitolinischer Pythagoras adjusted.jpg|upright=1.35|thumb|Bust of [[Pythagoras]] (c. 570–495 BC)]]
The year '''532 BC''' was a year of the [[Roman calendar|pre-Julian Roman calendar]]. In the [[Roman Empire]], it was known as '''year 222 '' [[Ab urbe condita]]'''''. The denomination 532 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==
=== By place ===
==== Europe ====
* [[Pythagoras]] arrives in the Greek [[Colonies in antiquity|colony]] of Croton (modern-day [[Crotone]]) in [[Magna Graecia]] and founds the philosophical school of [[Pythagoreanism]] (approximate date).
==Births==
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==Deaths==
*[[Duke Ping of Jin|Ping]],  ruler ([[duke]]) of the [[Jin (Chinese state)|State of Jin]] (from [[557 BC|557]] to 532 BC)
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