179 BC
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Millennium: | 1st millennium BC |
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179 BC by topic |
Politics |
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Thai solar calendar | 364–365 |
Tibetan calendar | 阴金鸡年 (female Iron-Rooster) −52 or −433 or −1205 — to — 阳水狗年 (male Water-Dog) −51 or −432 or −1204 |
Year 179 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Flaccus and Fulvianus (or, less frequently, year 575 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 179 BC for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.
Events
By place
Roman Republic
- Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus goes to Hispania as Roman governor to deal with uprisings there.
- The Tiber River in Rome. It is regarded as the world's first stone bridge.[1]
- Marcus Aemilius Lepidus is appointed both censor and princeps senatus.
Greece
- Macedonia, remorseful for having put his younger son Demetrius to death, at the instigation of his older son Perseus. Nevertheless, he is succeeded by his son Perseus.
Asia Minor
- Eumenes II of Pergamum defeats Pharnaces I of Pontus in a major battle. Finding himself unable to cope with the combined forces of Eumenes and Ariarathes IV of Cappadocia, Pharnaces is compelled to purchase peace by ceding all his conquests in Galatia and Paphlagonia, with the exception of Sinope.
Births
- Dong Zhongshu, Chinese scholar who is traditionally associated with the promotion of Confucianism as the official ideology of the Chinese imperial state (d. 104 BC)
- Liu An, Chinese prince, geographer, and cartographer (d. 122 BC)
- Sima Xiangru, Chinese statesman, poet, and musician (d. 117 BC)
Deaths
- Emperor Gao of Han
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References
- ISBN 0-8018-3574-7.