2nd century BC
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[edit] North Africa
- 146 BC Rome destroys and razes the city of Carthage in the Third Punic War.
[edit] Western Asia
- 190 BC, March 14: Solar eclipse recorded in Rome [Livy: Ab Urbe Condita 37.4.4].
- 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.
- 168 BC, June 21: Lunar eclipse recorded in Rome [Livy: Ab Urbe Condita 44.37.8].
- 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 conquers Corinth.
- 129 BC — collapse of the Seleucid Empire.
- 108 BC — Han Dynasty finally destroyed Wanggeom seong, the capital of Gojoseon. And Han Dynasty founded Sagunhyeon 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.
- 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.
- Shortly before 100 BC the Scythians overran Parthia. [1]
[edit] Eastern Asia
- Theravada Buddhism is officially introduced to Sri Lanka by the Venerable Mahinda.
