183 BC Chr.
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| 183 BC Chr. | |
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 Three provinces of the crumbling Maurya Empire fall to the Greco-Bactrian Kingdom . |
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| 183 BC In other calendars | |
| Buddhist calendar | 361/362 (southern Buddhism); 360/361 (alternative calculation according to Buddha's Parinirvana ) |
| Chinese calendar | 41st (42nd) cycle , year of the earth-horse戊午 ( at the beginning of the year fire-snake 丁巳) |
| Greek calendar | 1./2. Year of the 149th Olympiad |
| Jewish calendar | 3578/79 |
| Roman calendar | from urbe condita DLXXI (571) |
| Seleucid era | Babylon: 128/129 (turn of the year April); Syria: 129/130 (New Year October) |
Events
- With the fall of the Maurya Empire , three of its western provinces fall to the Greco-Bactrian Kingdom under Demetrios I.
- Titus Quinctius Flamininus travels to Bithynia to demand, in the name of Rome, the extradition of the Carthaginian general Hannibal, who is in exile there . King Prusias I complies , but Hannibal anticipates his arrest by committing suicide with poison in Libyssa .
- Pharnakes I of Pontus conquered the city of Sinope and made it the capital of his kingdom.
Died
- Hannibal , Carthaginian general (* around 247 BC )
- Scipio Africanus Major , general and statesman of the Roman Empire (* 235 BC )
- 183/182 BC Chr .: Philopoimen , the "last of the Hellenes", Greek general (* 253 BC )
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