155 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:	158 BC 157 BC 156 BC – 155 BC – 154 BC 153 BC 152 BC

155 BC in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	155 BC
Ab urbe condita	599
Ancient Egypt era	XXXIII dynasty, 169
- Pharaoh	Ptolemy VI Philometor, 26
Ancient Greek era	156th Olympiad, year 2
Assyrian calendar	4596
Bengali calendar	−747
Berber calendar	796
Buddhist calendar	390
Burmese calendar	−792
Byzantine calendar	5354–5355
Chinese calendar	乙酉年 (Wood Rooster) 2542 or 2482     — to — 丙戌年 (Fire Dog) 2543 or 2483
Coptic calendar	−438 – −437
Discordian calendar	1012
Ethiopian calendar	−162 – −161
Hebrew calendar	3606–3607
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	−98 – −97
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	2947–2948
Holocene calendar	9846
Iranian calendar	776 BP – 775 BP
Islamic calendar	800 BH – 799 BH
Julian calendar	N/A
Korean calendar	2179
Minguo calendar	2066 before ROC 民前2066年
Seleucid era	157/158 AG
Thai solar calendar	388–389

Year 155 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Corculum and Marcellus (or, less frequently, year 599 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 155 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

Hispania

• Under the command of Punicus and then Cesarus, the Lusitani, a Hispanic tribe, reach a point near modern day Gibraltar. Here they are defeated by the Roman praetor Lucius Mummius.

Roman Republic

• As part of the Roman efforts to fully conquer and occupy the whole of Illyria, a Roman army under consul Publius Cornelius Scipio Nasica Corculum attacks the Dalmatians for the first time and conquers the Dalmatian capital of Delminium. As a result, the Dalmatians are compelled to pay tribute to Rome, which puts an end to the first Dalmatian war. In recognition of his victory, Corculum is granted a triumph in Rome.

Bactria

• Menander I (known as Milinda in Sanskrit and Pali) begins his reign as king of the Indo-Greek Kingdom. His territories cover the eastern dominions of the divided Greek empire of Bactria (Panjshir and Kapisa) and extend to the modern Pakistani province of Punjab, most of the Indian states of Punjab and Himachal Pradesh and the Jammu region. His capital is considered to have been Sagala, a prosperous city in northern Punjab believed to be modern Sialkot.

Births

Deaths

• Empress Dowager Bo, imperial concubine of Emperor Gao of the Han dynasty

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