171 BC

Year 171 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Crassus and Longinus (or, less frequently, year 583 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 171 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:
171 BC in various calendars
Gregorian calendar171 BC
CLXX BC
Ab urbe condita583
Ancient Egypt eraXXXIII dynasty, 153
- PharaohPtolemy VI Philometor, 10
Ancient Greek era152nd Olympiad, year 2
Assyrian calendar4580
Balinese saka calendarN/A
Bengali calendar−763
Berber calendar780
Buddhist calendar374
Burmese calendar−808
Byzantine calendar5338–5339
Chinese calendar己巳年 (Earth Snake)
2526 or 2466
     to 
庚午年 (Metal Horse)
2527 or 2467
Coptic calendar−454 – −453
Discordian calendar996
Ethiopian calendar−178 – −177
Hebrew calendar3590–3591
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat−114 – −113
 - Shaka SamvatN/A
 - Kali Yuga2930–2931
Holocene calendar9830
Iranian calendar792 BP – 791 BP
Islamic calendar816 BH – 815 BH
Javanese calendarN/A
Julian calendarN/A
Korean calendar2163
Minguo calendar2082 before ROC
民前2082年
Nanakshahi calendar−1638
Seleucid era141/142 AG
Thai solar calendar372–373
Tibetan calendar阴土蛇年
(female Earth-Snake)
−44 or −425 or −1197
     to 
阳金马年
(male Iron-Horse)
−43 or −424 or −1196

Events

Greece

  • Epirus joins Macedonia in the latter's fight against Rome. However, the leagues of southern Greece remain neutral.
  • Thanks to the efforts of Eumenes II of Pergamum while in Rome, the Romans declare war on Macedonia and send troops to Thessaly, thus beginning the Third Macedonian War. In the resulting Battle of Callicinus the Macedonians, led by their king, Perseus, are victorious over a Roman force led by consul Publius Licinius Crassus.
  • Boiotian League dissolved by the Romans.

Roman Republic

  • The first Roman colony outside Italy is founded at Carteia in southern Hispania after Iberian-born descendants of Roman soldiers appear before the Roman Senate to request a town to live in and are given Carteia, which is named Colonia Libertinorum Carteia.
  • Lucius Postumius Albinus is sent by Rome as an ambassador to King Masinissa of Numidia, and to the Carthaginians in order to raise troops for the war against Perseus of Macedonia.

Parthia

  • Mithradates I succeeds his brother Phraates I as king of Parthia.

Deaths

  • Phraates I, King of Parthia, who has ruled the country since 176 BC

References

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