180 BC
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Year of the Metal Rooster辛酉( at the beginning of the year Metal Monkey庚申)
Syria: 132/133 ( year in October )
Events
Europe and the Mediterranean
- The lex Villia annalis is published, which governs the Roman official career ( Cursus honorum ).
- The Romans founded the colony of Pisa. In the same year, Luca is founded.
- Ptolemy VI. Philometor succeeds his deceased father Ptolemy V Epiphanes as pharaoh of Egypt. At the beginning of his reign, he is under the guardianship of his mother Cleopatra I.
- Genthius is king of the Illyrians.
Asia
- Apollodotos I becomes ruler of the Indo- Greek kingdom. The son of Demetrius I of Bactria is one of the first Greek rulers who rule beyond the Hindu Kush.
- 180 BC: Euthydemus II becomes ruler of the Greco- Bactrian Kingdom.
Born
- Publius Mucius Scaevola, Roman politician ( † 115 BC)
- 180 BC: Lucius Coelius Antipater, Roman jurist and historian († 120 BC)
- 180 BC: Panaetius of Rhodes, Greek philosopher and founder of the middle Stoa († 110 BC)
- 180 BC: Ptolemy VIII Euergetes II, Egyptian pharaoh († 116 BC)
- 180 BC: Viriatus, freedom hero of the Lusitanians in their fight against the Roman Empire ( Spanish War ) ( † 139 BC)
Died
- Aristophanes of Byzantium, Greek scholar (* 257 BC)
- Liu Hong, Chinese Emperor
- Lü Zhi, Chinese Empress
- Spurius Postumius Albinus, Roman politician
- Ptolemy V Epiphanes (* 210 BC)
- Lucius Valerius Flaccus, Roman politician
- 180 BC: Agathocles, Greco- Bactrian king