170 BC

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Heads of State

Year of the Metal sheep辛未( at the beginning of the year metal horse庚午)

Syria: 142/143 ( year in October )

Events

Politics and World Affairs

• Cincibilus, king of Noricum, concludes a treaty of friendship with the Romans.
• Under the hapless Aulus Hostilius Mancinus the Romans during the Third Macedonian -Roman war fails to make a gain of space. Epirus changes to the side of Perseus of Macedon.

Science and Technology

• Hypsicles of Alexandria ( " Anaphorikos " ) created a graduation of the circle into 360 degrees. Thus laying the basis for trigonometry in their preform the Chordenrechnung.

Born

• 170 BC: Lucius Accius, tragic poet († 90 BC)

Died

• Gaius Livius Salinator, Roman politician (c. 234 BC)
• Antiochus, co-ruler of his uncle Antiochus IV in the Seleucid Empire