160 BC

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Heads of State

Year of the Metal Snake辛巳( at the beginning of the year Metal Dragon庚辰)

Syria: 152/153 ( year October )

Events

Politics and World Affairs

• Judas Maccabaeus falls in the battle of Elasah against the Seleucid king Demetrius I. New rulers of the Hasmoneans is his brother Jonathan.

Sports

• Leonidas of Rhodes wins as already 164 BC all running competitions at the Olympic Games.

Born

• 160 BC: Jugurtha, king of Numidia († 104 BC)
• Around 160 BC. Cleopatra III, queen of Egypt from the Ptolemaic dynasty († 101 BC)

Died

• Lucius Aemilius Paullus Macedonicus, Roman general and politician (c. 229 BC)
• Judas Maccabaeus, the Jewish freedom fighters
• Timarchos, usurper in the Seleucid Empire

• Year (2nd century BC)
• 160 BC