199 Attalus I ... (Pergamum) (241-197) Dynast/King
Harwennefer - (Upper Egypt)
Ankhwennefer + (Upper Egypt)
198 Attalus I ... (Pergamum) (241-197) Dynast/King
Polybius 198-117
197 Battle of Cynoscephali - Romans defeat Philip V's forces
Spain divides into two provinces
Attalus I - (Pergamum) (241-197) Dynast/King
195 Aetolian League and Sparta join in alliance with Antiochus III
194 Eratosthenes 276-194
192 Syrian War - Antiochus III defeated by Romans (-189)
191 Book Burning Edict rescinded (China)
190 Battle of Magnesia - Euthydemus and his son Demetrius begin conquest of the Indus Valley
Hipparchus
ca. 190-120 Astronomer
189 Romans defeat Seleucids at Magnesia
187 Antiochus III - (Seleucid Empire) (the Great)
186 Ankhwennefer - (Upper Egypt)
185 The Shunga and Kanva dynasties in India founded (-78)
Laws of Manu in India (-100)
Demetrius I invades northern India - Ganhara & Punjab (-180)
Terence 185-159
184 Censorship of Cato
1,000 talents spent on Roman sewers
SUNGA DYNASTY + (INDIA) (184-78 BCE)
Pushayanitra + (India) Sunga
Plautus 254-184
183 Hannibal commits suicide to avoid being handed over to Romans
Hannibal 247-183
181 Foundation of Aquileia
Completion of the Roman conquest of Italy south of the Alps
180 Demetrius I invades northern India - Ganhara & Punjab (185-180)
Ptolemy V Epiphanes - PC 38*
Ptolemy VI Philometer + PC 39*
Ptolemy V - (Egypt) Macedonian (Epiphanes) PC 38
Ptolemy VI + (Egypt) Macedonian (Philometer) PC 39
Lucilius, Gaius 180-102 Latin Satiric Poet (Campania, Italy)
Panaetius 180-110
179 Great Altar of Pergamun (+-)
Philip V - (Macedon)
Perseus + (Macedon)
177 Tung Chung - Shu 177-104
175 Frieze from Altar of Zeus at Pergamon 7 wonders
Antiochus IV + (Syria) Epiphanes
171 Third Macedonian War - Perseus, last king of Macedon attacks Rome (-167)
170 Antiochus IV of Syria invades Egypt - Ptolemy VI captured at Pelusium
Egyptians proclaim Ptolemy VIII Euergetes king
Antiochus IV withdraws and brothers Ptolemy VI and VIII rule jointly
Antiochus IV Epiphanes captures Jerusalem
Eucratides set himself up as king of Bactria while Demetrius set up a state in the Punjab
Ptolemy VIII + (Egypt) Macedonian (Euergetes II)
Eucratides + (Bactria) (170-145) Greco-Bactrian King
Ennius 239-170
169 Eucratides ... (Bactria) (170-145) Greco-Bactrian King
168 Battle of Pydna - Romans under L. Aemilius Paullus defeat & capture Macedonian king Perseus (6/22)
Battle of Pydna - 3rd Macedonian War ends - Macedon comes under Roman rule - four republics (-146) (6/22)
Pella sacked by Roman army
Jewish kingdom revived under Hasmoneans
Siege of Alexandria - Roman intervention between Ptolemy VI Philometer and Ptolemy VII Physcon
Perseus - (Macedon)
Eucratides ... (Bactria) (170-145) Greco-Bactrian King
167 Roman citizens freed from direct taxation
Delos made a free port
Third Macedonian War with Rome ends
Zeus worship at Jewish Temple in Jerusalem starts Maccabean revolt
Antiochus IV begins persecution of the Jews
Eucratides ... (Bactria) (170-145) Greco-Bactrian King
166 Maccabean revolt against Antiochus IV (-164)
Mattathias dies - Judas Maccabeus succeeds him
Eucratides ... (Bactria) (170-145) Greco-Bactrian King
165 Maccabean victory over Greco-Syrians
Rededication of the Jewish Temple - Judas Maccabeus (Hanukkah created)
Eucratides ... (Bactria) (170-145) Greco-Bactrian King
164 Ptolemy VI - (Egypt) Macedonian (Philometer) PC 39
Eucratides ... (Bactria) (170-145) Greco-Bactrian King
163 Ptolemy VIII - (Egypt) Macedonian (Euergetes II)
Antiochus IV - (Syria) Epiphanes
Ptolemy VI + (Egypt) Macedonian (Philometer) PC 39
Eucratides ... (Bactria) (170-145) Greco-Bactrian King
162 Eucratides ... (Bactria) (170-145) Greco-Bactrian King
161 Judas Maccabeus killed by Syrian (Demetrius I) forces - Jonathan his brother succeeds him
Judas Maccabeus - (Judaea)
Jonathan Maccabeus + (Judaea)
Eucratides ... (Bactria) (170-145) Greco-Bactrian King
160 Eucratides I "The Great" invades western Indo-Greek Kingdom - probably kills Apollodotus I
Eucratides ... (Bactria) (170-145) Greco-Bactrian King
159 Terence 185-159
Eucratides ... (Bactria) (170-145) Greco-Bactrian King
158 Eucratides ... (Bactria) (170-145) Greco-Bactrian King
157 Judaea becomes an independent principality
Eucratides ... (Bactria) (170-145) Greco-Bactrian King
Gaius Marius 157-86 Roman Consul (4 times)
156 Eucratides ... (Bactria) (170-145) Greco-Bactrian King
155 Eucratides ... (Bactria) (170-145) Greco-Bactrian King
154 Roman subjugation of Spain (-133)
Eucratides ... (Bactria) (170-145) Greco-Bactrian King
153 Eucratides ... (Bactria) (170-145) Greco-Bactrian King
152 Eucratides ... (Bactria) (170-145) Greco-Bactrian King
151 Eucratides ... (Bactria) (170-145) Greco-Bactrian King
150 Tochari (Scythians or Sacae) occupy Sogdiana
Philip VI + (Macedon)
Eucratides ... (Bactria) (170-145) Greco-Bactrian King
Delphic Hymn to Apollo
149 Punic works on agriculture translated into Latin by order of the Roman senate
Fourth Macedonian War - Rome versus Macedon (149-148)
Takeover of Macedonia and most of Greece (-146)
Corinth razed (149-146)
Third Punic War - Carthage ruined - territory annexed as the province of "Africa"(-146)
Eucratides ... (Bactria) (170-145) Greco-Bactrian King
Cato 234-149
148 Macedonia becomes first Roman province in East
Philip VI - (Macedon)
Micipsa + (Numidia) (148-118) King
Eucratides ... (Bactria) (170-145) Greco-Bactrian King
147 Micipsa ... (Numidia) (148-118) King
Eucratides ... (Bactria) (170-145) Greco-Bactrian King
146 Rome conquers Greece and Sparta - Corinth destroyed (-395)
Micipsa ... (Numidia) (148-118) King
Eucratides ... (Bactria) (170-145) Greco-Bactrian King
145 Ptolemy VI killed in battle in Syria against Alaxander Balas
Ptolemy VI's son Ptolemy VII put to death by Ptolemy Physcon (VII)
Ptolemy VIII Euergetes seizes the Egyptian throne and marries Cleopatra II then her daughter Cleopatra III
Micipsa ... (Numidia) (148-118) King
Ptolemy VI + (Egypt) Macedonian (Philometer) PC 39
Ptolemy VII +- (Egypt) (Physcon) (Neos Philopater) usurper
Ptolemy VIII + (Egypt) Macedonian (Euergetes II) PC 40
Eucratides - (Bactria) (170-145) Greco-Bactrian King
144 First high level aqueduct in Rome
Introduction of hydraulic cement
Micipsa ... (Numidia) (148-118) King
143 Jonathan Maccabeus killed by treachery - his brother Simon succeeds him
Micipsa ... (Numidia) (148-118) King
Jonathan Maccabeus - (Judaea)
Simon Maccabeus + (Judaea)
142 Micipsa ... (Numidia) (148-118) King
141 Jews liberate Jerusalem
Judaea proclaimed an independent kingdom
Legalists excluded from government careers in China
Micipsa ... (Numidia) (148-118) King
Wu Ti + (Western Han China) (148-87) Emperor
140 Micipsa ... (Numidia) (148-118) King
Wu Ti ... (Western Han China) (148-87) Emperor
139 Tochari (Scythians or Sacae) occupy Bactria
Micipsa ... (Numidia) (148-118) King
Wu Ti ... (Western Han China) (148-87) Emperor
138 Sulla, Lucius Cornelius 138-78 Roman General/Dictator
Micipsa ... (Numidia) (148-118) King
Wu Ti ... (Western Han China) (148-87) Emperor
137 Micipsa ... (Numidia) (148-118) King
Wu Ti ... (Western Han China) (148-87) Emperor
136 Micipsa ... (Numidia) (148-118) King
Wu Ti ... (Western Han China) (148-87) Emperor
135 First Servile War - slave revolts in Sicily crushed (135-132)
Simon Maccabeus murdered by John Hyrcanus son-in-law
Simon Maccabeus - (Judaea)
John Hyrcanus I + (Judaea)
Micipsa ... (Numidia) (148-118) King
Wu Ti ... (Western Han China) (148-87) Emperor
Posidonius 135-51
134 Micipsa ... (Numidia) (148-118) King
Wu Ti ... (Western Han China) (148-87) Emperor
133 SINO-XIONGNU WAR + (133B-89A)
Late Roman Republic
Tiberius Gracchus elected tribune - murdered
Kingdom of Pergamum willed to Rome
Fall of Numantia Spain
Micipsa ... (Numidia) (148-118) King
Wu Ti ... (Western Han China) (148-87) Emperor
132 SINO-XIONGNU WAR ... (133B-89A)
Micipsa ... (Numidia) (148-118) King
Wu Ti ... (Western Han China) (148-87) Emperor
131 SINO-XIONGNU WAR ... (133B-89A)
Revolt in Thebes, Egypt
Micipsa ... (Numidia) (148-118) King
Harsiese +- (Theban Egypt)
Wu Ti ... (Western Han China) (148-87) Emperor
Mithridates Eupator 131-63
130 SINO-XIONGNU WAR ... (133B-89A)
Micipsa ... (Numidia) (148-118) King
Wu Ti ... (Western Han China) (148-87) Emperor
129 SINO-XIONGNU WAR ... (133B-89A)
Pergamum annexed by Rome as the province of "Asia"
Micipsa ... (Numidia) (148-118) King
Wu Ti ... (Western Han China) (148-87) Emperor
128 SINO-XIONGNU WAR ... (133B-89A)
Micipsa ... (Numidia) (148-118) King
Wu Ti ... (Western Han China) (148-87) Emperor
127 SINO-XIONGNU WAR ... (133B-89A)
Second expansion of Chinese empire (127-101)
Micipsa ... (Numidia) (148-118) King
Wu Ti ... (Western Han China) (148-87) Emperor
126 SINO-XIONGNU WAR ... (133B-89A)
Micipsa ... (Numidia) (148-118) King
Wu Ti ... (Western Han China) (148-87) Emperor
125 SINO-XIONGNU WAR ... (133B-89A)
Micipsa ... (Numidia) (148-118) King
Wu Ti ... (Western Han China) (148-87) Emperor
Carneades 215-125
124 SINO-XIONGNU WAR ... (133B-89A)
Micipsa ... (Numidia) (148-118) King
Wu Ti ... (Western Han China) (148-87) Emperor
Imperial Academy established in China
123 SINO-XIONGNU WAR ... (133B-89A)
Gaius Gracchus elected tribune
Micipsa ... (Numidia) (148-118) King
Wu Ti ... (Western Han China) (148-87) Emperor
122 SINO-XIONGNU WAR ... (133B-89A)
Rome annexes the Balearics
Micipsa ... (Numidia) (148-118) King
Wu Ti ... (Western Han China) (148-87) Emperor
121 SINO-XIONGNU WAR ... (133B-89A)
Gaius Gracchus murdered
Rome annexes Narbonensis as province of “Gaul” - called originally Gallia Transalpina
Romans subdue Gallic Allobroges and Arvernii
Micipsa ... (Numidia) (148-118) King
Wu Ti ... (Western Han China) (148-87) Emperor
120 SINO-XIONGNU WAR ... (133B-89A)
Micipsa ... (Numidia) (148-118) King
Wu Ti ... (Western Han China) (148-87) Emperor
Hipparchus ca. 190-120 Astronomer
119 SINO-XIONGNU WAR ... (133B-89A)
Micipsa ... (Numidia) (148-118) King
Wu Ti ... (Western Han China) (148-87) Emperor
118 SINO-XIONGNU WAR ... (133B-89A)
Micipsa - (Numidia) (148-118) King
Wu Ti ... (Western Han China) (148-87) Emperor
117 SINO-XIONGNU WAR ... (133B-89A)
Polybius 198-117
Wu Ti ... (Western Han China) (148-87) Emperor
116 SINO-XIONGNU WAR ... (133B-89A)
Roman senate divides Numidia between Jugurtha and Adherbal
Ptolemaic empire splits by order of Ptolemy VIII - years of strife follow
Ptolemy VII - (Egypt) (Physcon)
Ptolemy VIII - (Egypt) Macedonian (Euergetes II) PC 40
Ptolemy IX Soter II + (Egypt) Lagid (with Cleopatra III) PC 41
Wu Ti ... (Western Han China) (148-87) Emperor
Varro, Marcus Terentius 116-27
115 SINO-XIONGNU WAR ... (133B-89A)
Wu Ti ... (Western Han China) (148-87) Emperor
114 SINO-XIONGNU WAR ... (133B-89A)
Marius enlists landless men for the army
Wu Ti ... (Western Han China) (148-87) Emperor
113 SINO-XIONGNU WAR ... (133B-89A)
Wu Ti ... (Western Han China) (148-87) Emperor
112 SINO-XIONGNU WAR ... (133B-89A)
Wu Ti ... (Western Han China) (148-87) Emperor
111 SINO-XIONGNU WAR ... (133B-89A)
War begins between Rome and Jurgurtha, king of Numidia in Northern Africa
Han China conquers Vietnam - remains under Chinese control for over a millennium
Wu Ti ... (Western Han China) (148-87) Emperor
110 SINO-XIONGNU WAR ... (133B-89A)
Wu Ti ... (Western Han China) (148-87) Emperor
Panaetius 180-110
109 SINO-XIONGNU WAR ... (133B-89A)
Wu Ti ... (Western Han China) (148-87) Emperor
108 Emperor Wu Ti of China conquers Choson
Celtic Cimbri ravages Gaul
Wu Ti ... (Western Han China) (148-87) Emperor
107 SINO-XIONGNU WAR ... (133B-89A)
Lucius Cassius (Consul) killed by Helvetii (Tigurine Canton)
Gaius Marius elected consul (106)
Ptolemy VIII - (Egypt)?
Ptolemy IX Soter II - (Egypt) Lagid (with Cleopatra III) PC 41
Ptolemy X Alexander I + (Egypt) Lagid (with Cleopatra III)
Wu Ti ... (Western Han China) (148-87) Emperor
106 SINO-XIONGNU WAR ... (133B-89A)
Wu Ti ... (Western Han China) (148-87) Emperor
Marcus Tullius Cicero 106-43 Poet/Statesman (Picenum)
Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus (Pompey the Great) 106- General/Statesman (Picenum) (9/29)
105 SINO-XIONGNU WAR ... (133B-89A)
Rome annexes Tripolitania
Romans under Marius and Lucius Cornelius Sulla defeat Jugurtha - he's taken to Rome and killed
Battle of Arausio - Cimbri and Teutones defeat Romans
Hyrcanus I - (Judaea)
Alexander Jannaeus + (Judaea)
Wu Ti ... (Western Han China) (148-87) Emperor
104 SINO-XIONGNU WAR ... (133B-89A)
Marius consul (-100)
Aristobulus I becomes king of Judaea (-103)
Aristobulus + (Judaea) (104-103) 1st King/High Priest
Wu Ti ... (Western Han China) (148-87) Emperor
Tung Chung - Shu 177-104
103 SINO-XIONGNU WAR ... (133B-89A)
SECOND SERVILE WAR + (103-99)
Second Servile War in Rome (-99)
Aristobulus - (Judaea) (104-103) 1st King/High Priest
Alexander Jannaeus + (Judaea) (103-76) King/High Priest
Wu Ti ... (Western Han China) (148-87) Emperor
102 SECOND SERVILE WAR ... (103-99)
SINO-XIONGNU WAR ... (133B-89A)
Rome annexes Cilicia
Battle of Aquae Sextiae - Germanic tribes defeated
Alexander Jannaeus ... (Judaea) (103-76) King/High Priest
Wu Ti ... (Western Han China) (148-87) Emperor
Gaius Julius Caesar 102-44 Roman General/Dictator
Lucilius, Gaius 180-102 Latin Satiric Poet (Campania, Italy)
101 SECOND SERVILE WAR ... (103-99)
SINO-XIONGNU WAR ... (133B-89A)
Germanic tribes defeated at Vercellae
Alexander Jannaeus ... (Judaea) (103-76) King/High Priest
Wu Ti ... (Western Han China) (148-87) Emperor