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Events

January 1, 153 BC BC : Roman consuls begin their official business on January 1st (previously always on March 1st ). This means that January 1st is the beginning of the year.
151 BC BC : Scipio the Younger volunteered his services in the province at a time of the Roman catastrophes on the Iberian Peninsula and soon developed an influence on the Iberian tribes, similar to the older Scipio , his adoptive grandfather, almost 60 years earlier.

science

155 BC Chr . : suction. 'Philosophers' embassy ' of Greek philosophers from Athens to Rome : Participants are Carneades of Cyrene , Diogenes of Babylon and Critolaos.
150 BC BC : Hipparchus of Nicaea calculates the distance between the earth and the moon to be 30 diameters of the earth (384,000 km).

literature

Hajo Hayen: Moor botanical studies on the course of the precipitation climate and its connection with human settlement activity . In: New excavations and research in Lower Saxony . tape 3 , 1966, pp. 280-307 .

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