This article concerns the period 159 BC – 150 BC. Attalus II Philadelphus succeeds his brother Eumenes II as king of Pergamon. With the Seleucid victory...

The 2nd century BC started the first day of 200 BC and ended the last day of 101 BC. It is considered part of the Classical era, although depending on...

37 J. D. Fage, R. A. Oliver, The Cambridge History of Africa: From C.500 BC to AD1050, 858 pp., Cambridge University Press, 1979, ISBN 0-521-21592-7,...

further details for each decade, century, and millennium from 15,000 BC to AD 3000. 0s BC is not a true decade, as it contains only nine years. AD 0s is not...

millennium BC, also known as the last millennium BC, was the period of time lasting from the years 1000 BC to 1 BC (10th to 1st centuries BC; in astronomy:...

Sea. The city was formerly known as Attalia and was founded in around 200 BC by King Attalus II of Pergamon. Attalia was soon conquered by the Romans....

This article concerns the period 149 BC – 140 BC. The Third Punic War begins. The Romans land an army in Africa to begin the Battle of Carthage. Servius...

Gaius Marius (Latin: [ˈɡaːiʊs ˈmariʊs]; c. 157 BC – 13 January 86 BC) was a Roman general and statesman. Victor of the Cimbric and Jugurthine wars, he...

Roman Republic from 155 to 139 BC. The Lusitanians revolted in 155 BC, and again in 146 BC and were pacified. In 154 BC, a long war in Hispania Citerior...

Year 147 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Aemilianus and Drusus (or, less frequently...