2nd Century BC - Events

Events

  • March 14, 190 BC: Solar eclipse recorded in Rome .
  • 175 BC: Antiochus IV Epiphanes, took possession of the Syrian throne, at the murder of his brother Seleucus IV Philopator, which rightly belonged to his nephew Demetrius I Soter.
  • 168 BC: Battle of Pydna—The Macedonian phalanx defeated by Romans.
  • June 21, 168 BC: Lunar eclipse recorded in Rome .
  • 164 BC, 25 Kislev: Judas Maccabaeus, son of Mattathias of the Hasmonean family, restores the Temple in Jerusalem. Events commemorated each year by the festival of Hanukkah.
  • 147 BC: Hasmonean victories restore autonomy to Judea.
  • 148 BC: Rome conquers Macedonia.
  • 146 BC: Rome destroys and razes the city of Carthage in the Third Punic War.
    • Rome conquers Corinth.
  • 133 BC: assassination of Tiberius Gracchus
  • 129 BC: collapse of the Seleucid Empire.
  • 121 BC: assassination of Gaius Gracchus
  • 108 BC: Gojoseon-Han War—Han Dynasty finally destroyed Wanggeom seong, the capital of Gojoseon. And Han Dynasty founded Four Commanderies of Han to govern Gojoseon.
  • 107 BC: Roman consul Gaius Marius passes the Marian Reforms, which remove all ownership restrictions for joining the Roman Army.
  • 113 BC – 101 BC: Migration of the Cimbri and the Teutons, defeated at the battles of Aquae Sextiae and Vercellae.
  • Theravada Buddhism is officially introduced to Sri Lanka by the Venerable Mahinda.
  • 2nd or 1st century BC: Hagesandros, Polydoros, Athanadoros of Rhodes make Laocoön and his Sons. Perhaps the original or a Roman copy of the 1st century AD is discovered in 1506. It is now at Musei Vaticani, Museo Pio Clementino, Cortile Ottagono, Rome.
  • Porta Augusta, Perugia, is built.
  • House of the Vettii, Pompeii, is built.
  • Late 2nd century BC – Temple perhaps dedicated to Portunes, Forum Boarium, Rome, is built.
  • Late 2nd century BC or early 1st century BC – Aulus Metellus, found near Perugia, is made. It is now kept at Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Florence.
  • Shortly before 100 BC the Scythians overran Parthia.
  • Buddhist monks begin to hew caves for their own use out of the stone plateaus in the region of south-central India known as the Deccan (approximate date).
  • The Segestani were attacked by the Romans

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