180 BC Chr.

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Heads of state

180 BC Chr.
Ptolemy VI becomes Pharaoh of Egypt .
180 BC In other calendars
Buddhist calendar	364/365 (southern Buddhism); 363/364 (alternative calculation according to Buddha's Parinirvana )
Chinese calendar	41st (42nd) cycle , year of the metal rooster辛酉 ( at the beginning of the year metal monkey 庚申)
Greek calendar	4th year of the 149th / 1st year of the 150th Olympiad
Jewish calendar	3581/82
Roman calendar	from urbe condita DLXXIV (574)
Seleucid era	Babylon: 131/132 (New Year April); Syria: 132/133 (turn of the year October)

Events

Europe and the Mediterranean

• The lex Villia annalis is published, which regulates the Roman official career ( Cursus honorum ).
• The Romans found the colony of Pisa . In the same year, Luca is also founded.
• Ptolemy VI Philometor succeeds his late father Ptolemy V Epiphanes as Pharaoh of Egypt . At the beginning of his reign he was under the tutelage of his mother Cleopatra I.
• Genthios becomes king of the Illyrians .

Asia

Coin of Apollodotos I

• Apollodotos I becomes ruler of an Indo-Greek kingdom . The son of Demetrios I of Bactria is one of the first Greek rulers to rule beyond the Hindu Kush.

Euthydemus II coin.

• around 180 BC BC: Euthydemos II becomes ruler of the Greco-Bactrian kingdom .

Born

• Publius Mucius Scaevola , Roman politician († 115 BC )

• around 180 BC Chr .: Lucius Coelius Antipater , Roman lawyer and historian († around 120 BC )
• around 180 BC Chr .: Panaitios of Rhodes , Greek philosopher and founder of the Middle Stoa († around 110 BC )
• around 180 BC Chr .: Ptolemaios VIII. Euergetes II., Egyptian pharaoh († 116 BC )
• around 180 BC Chr .: Viriathus , freedom hero of the Lusitans in their fight against the Roman Empire (Spanish War) († 139 BC )

Died

• Aristophanes of Byzantium , Greek scholar (* 257 BC )
• Liu Hong , Chinese emperor
• Lü Zhi , Chinese Empress
• Spurius Postumius Albinus , Roman politician
• Ptolemy V Epiphanes (* 210 BC )
• Lucius Valerius Flaccus , Roman politician

• around 180 BC Chr .: Agathocles , Greek-Bactrian king

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