185 BC

185 BC by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

185 BC in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	185 BC CLXXXIV BC
Ab urbe condita	569
Ancient Egypt era	XXXIII dynasty, 139
- Pharaoh	Ptolemy V Epiphanes, 19
Ancient Greek era	148th Olympiad, year 4
Assyrian calendar	4566
Balinese saka calendar	N/A
Bengali calendar	−777
Berber calendar	766
Buddhist calendar	360
Burmese calendar	−822
Byzantine calendar	5324–5325
Chinese calendar	乙卯年 (Wood Rabbit) 2512 or 2452     — to — 丙辰年 (Fire Dragon) 2513 or 2453
Coptic calendar	−468 – −467
Discordian calendar	982
Ethiopian calendar	−192 – −191
Hebrew calendar	3576–3577
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	−128 – −127
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	2916–2917
Holocene calendar	9816
Iranian calendar	806 BP – 805 BP
Islamic calendar	831 BH – 830 BH
Javanese calendar	N/A
Julian calendar	N/A
Korean calendar	2149
Minguo calendar	2096 before ROC 民前2096年
Nanakshahi calendar	−1652
Seleucid era	127/128 AG
Thai solar calendar	358–359
Tibetan calendar	ཤིང་མོ་ཡོས་ལོ་ (female Wood-Hare) −58 or −439 or −1211     — to — མེ་ཕོ་འབྲུག་ལོ་ (male Fire-Dragon) −57 or −438 or −1210

Year 185 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar.

Events

By place

Roman Republic

• The Roman general Scipio Africanus and his brother Lucius are accused by Cato the Elder of receiving bribes from the late Seleucid king Antiochus III.

Egypt

• The civil war between the northern and southern areas of Egypt ends with the arrest of Ankmachis by the Ptolemaic general Conanus.

India

• Pusyamitra Sunga kills the Mauryan emperor Brhadrata. He forms the Sunga dynasty.

Births

• Publius Cornelius Scipio Aemilianus, leading general and politician of the Roman Republic. As consul he will be the commander of the final siege and destruction of Carthage and will be the leader of the senators opposed to the Gracchi (d. 129 BC)
• Panaetius of Rhodes, Greek philosopher (d. 110 BC)

Deaths

• Brhadrata, Indian emperor, last ruler of the Indian Mauryan dynasty (from 197 BC)