144 BC

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Heads of State

Year of the Fire Rooster丁酉( at the beginning of the year Fire Monkey丙申)

Syria: 168/169 ( year in October )

Events

  • Construction of the Aqua Marcia ( an aqueduct ) under the praetor Quintus Marcius Rex from the Aniene to Rome.
  • The four-year Antiochus VI. is determined by the death of his father Alexander I Balas of general Diodotus Tryphon heir to the throne in the Seleucid Empire.

Died

  • Aristarchus of Samothrace, Greek scholar and director of the Library of Alexandria (c. 216 BC)
  • Ptolemy VII, king of Egypt (c. 162 BC)
  • Year (2nd century BC)
  • 144 BC
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