152 BC

Millennium:	1st millennium BC
Centuries:	3rd century BC – 2nd century BC – 1st century BC
Decades:	180s BC  170s BC  160s BC  – 150s BC –  140s BC  130s BC  120s BC
Years:	155 BC 154 BC 153 BC – 152 BC – 151 BC 150 BC 149 BC

152 BC in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	152 BC
Ab urbe condita	602
Ancient Egypt era	XXXIII dynasty, 172
- Pharaoh	Ptolemy VI Philometor, 29
Ancient Greek era	157th Olympiad (victor)¹
Assyrian calendar	4599
Bengali calendar	−744
Berber calendar	799
Buddhist calendar	393
Burmese calendar	−789
Byzantine calendar	5357–5358
Chinese calendar	戊子年 (Earth Rat) 2545 or 2485     — to — 己丑年 (Earth Ox) 2546 or 2486
Coptic calendar	−435 – −434
Discordian calendar	1015
Ethiopian calendar	−159 – −158
Hebrew calendar	3609–3610
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	−95 – −94
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	2950–2951
Holocene calendar	9849
Iranian calendar	773 BP – 772 BP
Islamic calendar	797 BH – 796 BH
Julian calendar	N/A
Korean calendar	2182
Minguo calendar	2063 before ROC 民前2063年
Seleucid era	160/161 AG
Thai solar calendar	391–392

Year 152 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Marcellus and Flaccus (or, less frequently, year 602 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 152 BC for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

Events

By place

Seleucid Empire

• The pretender to the Seleucid throne, Alexander Balas, makes contact with Jonathan Maccabeus offering him terms even more favorable than those offered by the king Demetrius I Soter. In particular, Alexander offers him the official appointment as High Priest in Jerusalem. In response, Jonathan withdraws his support from Demetrius and declares his allegiance to Alexander. Thus Jonathan becomes the first member of his family to achieve appointment as High Priest.

Births

Deaths

• Marcus Aemilius Lepidus, Roman statesman, consul, Pontifex Maximus and censor; as a praetor, he has been governor of Sicily in 191 BC
• Marcus Porcius Cato Licinianus, Roman jurist, son of Cato the Elder by his first wife, Licinia

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