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The year '''531 BC''' was a year of the [[Roman calendar|pre-Julian Roman calendar]]. In the [[Roman Empire]], it was known as '''year 223 '' [[Ab urbe condita]]'''''. The denomination 531 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.

==Births==
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==Deaths==
* [[Laozi]], [[China|Chinese]] founder of [[Taoism]] (approximate date){{citation needed|date=January 2015}}

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