| Millennium: | 1st millennium BC |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | 3rd century BC – 2nd century BC – 1st century BC |
| Decades: | 180s BC 170s BC 160s BC – 150s BC – 140s BC 130s BC 120s BC |
| Years: | 159 BC 158 BC 157 BC – 156 BC – 155 BC 154 BC 153 BC |
| 156 BC by topic | |
| Politics | |
| State leaders – Sovereign states | |
| Birth and death categories | |
| Births – Deaths | |
| Establishments and disestablishments categories | |
| Establishments – Disestablishments | |
| Gregorian calendar | 156 BC |
| Ab urbe condita | 598 |
| Armenian calendar | N/A |
| Bahá'í calendar | -1999 – -1998 |
| Bengali calendar | -748 |
| Berber calendar | 795 |
| Buddhist calendar | 389 |
| Burmese calendar | -793 |
| Byzantine calendar | 5353 – 5354 |
| Chinese calendar | 甲年 (2481/2541) — to —
[[Sexagenary cycle|]]年(2482/2542) |
| Coptic calendar | -439 – -438 |
| Ethiopian calendar | -163 – -162 |
| Hebrew calendar | 3605 – 3606 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Bikram Samwat | -99 – -98 |
| - Shaka Samvat | N/A |
| - Kali Yuga | 2946 – 2947 |
| Holocene calendar | 9845 |
| Iranian calendar | 777 BP – 776 BP |
| Islamic calendar | 801 BH – 800 BH |
| Japanese calendar | |
| Korean calendar | 2178 |
| Thai solar calendar | 388 |