159 BC

Year 159 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Dolabella and Nobilior (or, less frequently, year 595 Ab urbe condita) and the Fifth Year of Houyuan. The denomination 159 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.

Millennium: 1st millennium BC
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
159 BC in various calendars
Gregorian calendar159 BC
CLVIII BC
Ab urbe condita595
Ancient Egypt eraXXXIII dynasty, 165
- PharaohPtolemy VI Philometor, 22
Ancient Greek era155th Olympiad, year 2
Assyrian calendar4592
Balinese saka calendarN/A
Bengali calendar−751
Berber calendar792
Buddhist calendar386
Burmese calendar−796
Byzantine calendar5350–5351
Chinese calendar辛巳年 (Metal Snake)
2538 or 2478
     to 
壬午年 (Water Horse)
2539 or 2479
Coptic calendar−442 – −441
Discordian calendar1008
Ethiopian calendar−166 – −165
Hebrew calendar3602–3603
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat−102 – −101
 - Shaka SamvatN/A
 - Kali Yuga2942–2943
Holocene calendar9842
Iranian calendar780 BP – 779 BP
Islamic calendar804 BH – 803 BH
Javanese calendarN/A
Julian calendarN/A
Korean calendar2175
Minguo calendar2070 before ROC
民前2070年
Nanakshahi calendar−1626
Seleucid era153/154 AG
Thai solar calendar384–385
Tibetan calendar阴金蛇年
(female Iron-Snake)
−32 or −413 or −1185
     to 
阳水马年
(male Water-Horse)
−31 or −412 or −1184

Events

Seleucid Empire

  • With the Seleucid victory in Judea over the Maccabees, Alcimus is re-established as the High Priest of Israel, and a strong force is left in Jerusalem to support him. However, he does not enjoy his triumph for long, as he dies soon after from a paralytic stroke.

Bactria

  • While Eucratides I is in north west India to claim possession of the previous Bactrian King Demetrius I's territory there, the Parthians, under Mithradates I, annex two Bactrian provinces. Returning from India to reconquer them, Eucratides is murdered by his son.

Births

  • Quintus Mucius Scaevola Augur, politician of the Roman Republic and an early authority on Roman law (d. 88 BC) (approximate date)

Deaths

  • Charops of Epirus, ruler of Epirus.
  • Alcimus, high priest of Judea.
  • Eucratides I, king of Bactria, who has reigned since around 170 BC.
  • Eumenes II, king of Pergamon.
  • Publius Terentius Afer (Terence), Roman comic dramatist, the author of six verse comedies that are long regarded as models of pure Latin (b. c. 195 BC) (approximate date).


References

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