1,559
1,559 is a prime, odd, a calendar year.
Notable events — 1559 AD
- Apr 3 The Peace of Cateau-Cambrésis ends the Italian Wars.
- Jul 10 Henry II of France dies of jousting injuries; Francis II succeeds.
- Apr 29 The Act of Supremacy and Act of Uniformity restore Protestantism in England.
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Year facts
- Year type
-
Common year
Standard 365-day year; not divisible by 4 (or divisible by 100 but not 400).
- Days in year
- 365
- ISO weeks
-
53
Long year: contains 53 ISO weeks.
- Started on
-
Thursday
January 1, 1559
- Ended on
-
Thursday
December 31, 1559
- Friday the 13ths
-
3
3 Friday the 13ths this year.
- Decade
-
1550s
1550–1559
- Century
-
16th century
1501–1600
- Millennium
-
2nd millennium
1001–2000
- Years ago
-
467
467 years before 2026.
In other calendars
- Hebrew
-
5319 / 5320 AM
Rosh Hashanah falls in September/October.
- Islamic Hijri
-
966 / 967 AH
Lunar calendar; year spans differ from Gregorian.
- Chinese
-
Year of the zodiac:Earth zodiac:Goat
Sexagenary cycle position 56 of 60. Lunar new year falls in late January / mid-February.
- Buddhist Era
-
2102 BE
Counted from the parinirvana of the Buddha (Theravada / Thai / Sri Lankan convention).
- Persian Solar Hijri
-
937 / 938 SH
Iranian calendar; Nowruz (new year) falls on the spring equinox.
- Ethiopian
-
1551 / 1552 ET
Year boundary at Enkutatash (September 11/12).
- Indian National (Saka)
-
1481 / 1480 Saka
Indian national calendar; year starts in March.
Properties
Primality
1,559 is prime. It has exactly two divisors: 1 and itself.
Divisors & multiples
Sums & aliquot sequence
Representations
- In words
- one thousand five hundred fifty-nine
- Ordinal
- 1559th
- Roman numeral
- MDLIX
- Binary
- 11000010111
- Octal
- 3027
- Hexadecimal
- 0x617
- Base64
- Bhc=
- One's complement
- 63,976 (16-bit)
Historical numeral systems
- Babylonian (base 60)
- 𒌋𒌋𒁹𒁹𒁹𒁹𒁹 𒌋𒌋𒌋𒌋𒌋𒁹𒁹𒁹𒁹𒁹𒁹𒁹𒁹𒁹
- Egyptian hieroglyphic
- 𓆼𓍢𓍢𓍢𓍢𓍢𓎆𓎆𓎆𓎆𓎆𓏺𓏺𓏺𓏺𓏺𓏺𓏺𓏺𓏺
- Greek (Milesian)
- ͵αφνθʹ
- Mayan (base 20)
- 𝋣·𝋱·𝋳
- Chinese
- 一千五百五十九
- Chinese (financial)
- 壹仟伍佰伍拾玖
Digit at this position in famous constants
- π — Pi (π)
- Digit 1,559 = 4
- e — Euler's number (e)
- Digit 1,559 = 5
- φ — Golden ratio (φ)
- Digit 1,559 = 9
- √2 — Pythagoras's (√2)
- Digit 1,559 = 3
- ln 2 — Natural log of 2
- Digit 1,559 = 0
- γ — Euler-Mascheroni (γ)
- Digit 1,559 = 7
Also seen as
UTF-8 encoding: D8 97 (2 bytes).
As an unsigned 32-bit integer, this is the IPv4 address 0.0.6.23.
- Address
- 0.0.6.23
- Class
- reserved
- IPv4-mapped IPv6
- ::ffff:0.0.6.23
Unspecified address (0.0.0.0/8) — "this network" placeholder.
This passes the ABA routing number checksum and matches the Federal Reserve numbering scheme.
Banks operate many routing numbers per state and division; an unmatched checksum-valid number can still be a real RTN at a smaller institution.
The digit sequence 1559 first appears in π at position 2,215 of the decimal expansion (the 2,215ordinal-suffix:th digit after the integer 3).
Search range: the first 1,000,000 fractional digits of π. Any 6-digit-or-shorter string is virtually guaranteed to appear in there — the more interesting signal is the position.