165 BC

Millennium:	1st millennium BC
Centuries:	3rd century BC – 2nd century BC – 1st century BC
Decades:	190s BC 180s BC 170s BC – 160s BC – 150s BC 140s BC 130s BC
Years:	168 BC 167 BC 166 BC – 165 BC – 164 BC 163 BC 162 BC

165 BC by topic
Politics
State leaders – Sovereign states
Birth and death categories
Births – Deaths
Establishments and disestablishments categories
Establishments – Disestablishments

**165 BC in other calendars**
Gregorian calendar	165 BC
Ab urbe condita	589
Armenian calendar	N/A
Bahá'í calendar	-2008 – -2007
Bengali calendar	-757
Berber calendar	786
Buddhist calendar	380
Burmese calendar	-802
Byzantine calendar	5344 – 5345
Chinese calendar	[[Sexagenary cycle\|]]年 (2472/2532) — to — 子年 (2473/2533)
Coptic calendar	-448 – -447
Ethiopian calendar	-172 – -171
Hebrew calendar	3596 – 3597
Hindu calendars
- Bikram Samwat	-108 – -107
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	2937 – 2938
Holocene calendar	9836
Iranian calendar	786 BP – 785 BP
Islamic calendar	810 BH – 809 BH
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar	2169
Thai solar calendar	379

Events

By place

Seleucid Empire

Artaxias I, King of Armenia, is taken captive by the Seleucid king Antiochus IV Epiphanes when he attacks Armenia. Artaxias is forced to recognize Antiochus IV's suzerainty over Armenia before he is released.

Roman Republic

The Roman playwright Terence's Hecyra (The Mother-in-Law) is first performed.

Births

Deaths

Perseus, the last king of Macedonia, who has ruled from 179 BC to 168 BC and whose attempts to dominate Greece has brought on the final defeat of Macedonia by the Romans, leading to the Roman annexation of the region (b. c. 212 BC)