179 BC

Millennium:	1st millennium BC
Centuries:	3rd century BC – 2nd century BC – 1st century BC
Decades:	200s BC  190s BC  180s BC  – 170s BC –  160s BC  150s BC  140s BC
Years:	182 BC 181 BC 180 BC – 179 BC – 178 BC 177 BC 176 BC

179 BC in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	179 BC
Ab urbe condita	575
Ancient Egypt era	XXXIII dynasty, 145
- Pharaoh	Ptolemy VI Philometor, 2
Ancient Greek era	150th Olympiad, year 2
Assyrian calendar	4572
Bengali calendar	−771
Berber calendar	772
Buddhist calendar	366
Burmese calendar	−816
Byzantine calendar	5330–5331
Chinese calendar	辛酉年 (Metal Rooster) 2518 or 2458     — to — 壬戌年 (Water Dog) 2519 or 2459
Coptic calendar	−462 – −461
Discordian calendar	988
Ethiopian calendar	−186 – −185
Hebrew calendar	3582–3583
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	−122 – −121
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	2923–2924
Holocene calendar	9822
Iranian calendar	800 BP – 799 BP
Islamic calendar	825 BH – 824 BH
Julian calendar	N/A
Korean calendar	2155
Minguo calendar	2090 before ROC 民前2090年
Seleucid era	133/134 AG
Thai solar calendar	364–365

Year 179 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Flaccus and Fulvianus (or, less frequently, year 575 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 179 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

Roman Republic

• Tiberius Gracchus Major goes to Hispania as Roman governor to deal with uprisings there.
• The Pons Aemilius is completed across the Tiber River in Rome. It is regarded as the world's first stone bridge.
• Marcus Aemilius Lepidus is appointed both censor and princeps senatus.

Greece

• Philip V of Macedon dies at Amphipolis in Macedonia, remorseful for having put his younger son Demetrius to death, at the instigation of his older son Perseus. Nevertheless, he is succeeded by his son Perseus.

Asia Minor

• Eumenes II of Pergamum defeats Pharnaces I of Pontus in a major battle. Finding himself unable to cope with the combined forces of Eumenes and Ariarathes IV of Cappadocia, Pharnaces is compelled to purchase peace by ceding all his conquests in Galatia and Paphlagonia, with the exception of Sinope.

Births

• Liu An, Chinese prince, geographer, and cartographer (d. 122 BC)
• Sima Xiangru, Chinese statesman, poet, and musician (d. 117 BC)
• Dong Zhongshu, Chinese scholar who is traditionally associated with the promotion of Confucianism as the official ideology of the Chinese imperial state (d. 104 BC)

Deaths

• Philip V, king of Macedonia from 221 BC, whose attempt to extend Macedonian influence throughout Greece has occurred at a time of growing Roman involvement in Greek affairs and resulted in his military defeat by Rome (b. 238 BC)
• Liu Xiang, Chinese prince involved in the Lü Clan Disturbance in 180 BC and grandson of Emperor Gao of Han

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