196 BC
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Year of the Wood Snake乙巳( at the beginning of the year, Wood Dragon甲辰)
Syria: 116/117 ( year in October )
Events
Politics and World Affairs
- Marcus Claudius Marcellus is Consul of the Roman Republic. At the end of the year he is also appointed as Pontifex Maximus.
- Spring: Titus Quinctius Flamininus declared on the Isthmian Games Greece for free. End of the Second Macedonian -Roman war.
Culture
- On behalf of the Pharaoh Ptolemy V of the Rosetta stone is hewn in the ninth year of his reign.
Died
- Marcus Cornelius Cethegus, Roman politician
- By 196 BC: Gaius Sempronius Tuditanus, Roman politician