180s BC

Millennium:	1st millennium BC
Centuries:	3rd century BC – 2nd century BC – 1st century BC
Decades:	210s BC 200s BC 190s BC – 180s BC – 170s BC 160s BC 150s BC
Years:	189 BC 188 BC 187 BC 186 BC 185 BC 184 BC 183 BC 182 BC 181 BC 180 BC
Categories:	Births – Deaths – Architecture Establishments – Disestablishments

Contents 1 Events and trends 2 Births 2.1 188 2.2 186 2.3 185 2.4 183 2.5 182 2.6 180 3 Deaths 3.1 189 3.2 188 3.3 187 3.4 186 3.5 185 3.6 184 3.7 183 3.8 182 3.9 181 3.10 180

Events and trends

Births

188

• Jing of Han, emperor of the Chinese Han Dynasty, who will rule from 156 BC. During his reign, he will fight to curtail of power of the Chinese feudal princes (d. 141 BC)

186

• Ptolemy VI Philometor, king of Egypt, who will reign from 180 BC (d. 145 BC)

185

• Publius Cornelius Scipio Aemilianus, leading general and politician of the Roman Republic. As consul he will be the commander of the final siege and destruction of Carthage and will be the leader of the senators opposed to the Gracchi (d. 129 BC)
• Panaetius of Rhodes, Greek philosopher (d. 110 BC)

183

• Publius Cornelius Scipio Nasica Serapio, consul in 138 BC, who will have a prominent part in the murder of Tiberius Gracchus by leading a group of conservative senators and other knights in opposition to Gracchus and his supporters (d. 132 BC)

182

• Ptolemy VIII Euergetes II, king of the Ptolemaic dynasty in Egypt (d. 116 BC)

180

• Apollodorus of Athens, Greek scholar and grammarian (d. c. 120 BC)
• Viriathus, Lusitanian chieftain and general (d. 139 BC)

Deaths

189

• Zhang Liang, Chinese rebel and taoist, who has helped Liu Bang establish the Han Dynasty

188

• Hui of Han, the second emperor of the Chinese Han Dynasty, who has ruled from 195 BC (b. 210 BC)

187

• Antiochus III the Great, Seleucid king of the Hellenistic Syrian Empire from 223 BC, who has rebuilt the empire in the East but failed in his attempt to challenge Roman ascendancy in Greece and Anatolia (b. c. 241 BC)

186

• Li Cang, Marquis of Dai, buried in one of the tombs at Mawangdui

185

• Brhadrata, Indian emperor, last ruler of the Indian Mauryan dynasty (from 197 BC)

184

• Titus Macchius Plautus, Roman comic dramatist, whose works, loosely adapted from Greek plays, established a truly Roman drama in the Latin language (b. c. 254 BC)
• Liu Gong, third emperor of the Chinese Han Dynasty

183

• Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus Major, Roman statesman and general, famous for his victory over the Carthaginian leader Hannibal in the Battle of Zama in 202 BC, which has ended the Second Punic War and given him the surname Africanus (b. 236 BC)
• Philopoemen, Greek general and statesman, strategos of the Achaean League on eight occasions and a major figure in the demise of Sparta as a Greek power (b. 253 BC)
• Hannibal, Carthaginian statesman, military commander and tactician, one of history's great military leaders, who has commanded the Carthaginian forces against Rome in the Second Punic War (b. 247 BC)

182

• Prusias I Chlorus, king of Bithynia (b. c. 228 BC)

181

• Ptolemy V Epiphanes, Ptolemaic dynasty ruler of Egypt who has reigned from 204 BC

180

• Lucius Valerius Flaccus, Roman statesman, consul in 195 BC, censor in 183 BC and colleague of Cato the Elder
• Aristophanes of Byzantium, Greek scholar, critic and grammarian, particularly renowned for his work in Homeric scholarship, but also for work on other classical authors such as Pindar and Hesiod. After early studies under leading scholars in Alexandria, he has been chief librarian since about 195 BC (b. 257 BC)
• Empress Dowager Lü, de facto ruler of the Chinese Han dynasty and wife of Emperor Gao
• Liu Hong, fourth emperor of the Chinese Han Dynasty