183 BC

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Heads of State

Year of the Earth horse戊午( at the beginning of the year Fire Snake丁巳)

Syria: 129/130 ( year in October )

Events

  • With the decline of the Mauryan empire fall three of its western provinces to the Greek - Bactrian Kingdom, Demetrius I
  • Titus Quinctius Flamininus travels to Bithynia to require delivery of the located there in exile Carthaginian Hannibal in the name of Rome. King Prusias I come to the demand, but Hannibal comes before his arrest, he commits suicide by poison in Libyssa.
  • Pharnakes I of Pontus conquered the city of Sinope and makes it the capital of his kingdom.

Died

  • Hannibal, Carthaginian military leader (c. 247 BC)
  • Scipio Africanus Major, commander and statesman of the Roman Empire (* 236 BC)
  • 183/182 BC: Philopoemen, the " Last of the Hellenes ", Greek commander (* 253 BC)
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