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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
196
195 Aetolian League and Sparta join in alliance with Antiochus III
194
Eratosthenes 276-194
193
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191 Book Burning Edict rescinded (China)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
188
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
182
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)
178
177
Tung Chung - Shu 177-104
176
175
Frieze from Altar of Zeus at Pergamon 7 wonders
Antiochus IV + (Syria) Epiphanes
174
173
172
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



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