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 Perseus of Macedonia wages the Third Macedonian-Roman War against the Roman Empire. |
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| 172 BC In other calendars | |
| Buddhist calendar | 372/373 (southern Buddhism); 371/372 (alternative calculation according to Buddha's Parinirvana ) |
| Chinese calendar | 42nd (43rd) cycle , year of the earth-serpent 己巳 ( at the beginning of the year earth-dragon 龙 辰) |
| Greek calendar | 4th year of the 151st / 1st year of the 152nd Olympiad |
| Jewish calendar | 3589/90 |
| Roman calendar | from urbe condita DLXXXII (582) |
| Seleucid era | Babylon: 139/140 (turn of the year April); Syria: 140/141 (turn of the year October) |
Events
- Eumenes II , king of Pergamon , travels to Italy to complain to the Roman Senate about the Macedonian king Perseus . Roman ambassadors who then travel to Macedonia are expelled from the country by Perseus. The Third Macedonian-Roman War begins .