185 BC

Millennium:	1st millennium BC
Centuries:	3rd century BC – 2nd century BC – 1st century BC
Decades:	210s BC  200s BC  190s BC  – 180s BC –  170s BC  160s BC  150s BC
Years:	188 BC 187 BC 186 BC – 185 BC – 184 BC 183 BC 182 BC

185 BC in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	185 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
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	2917–2918
Holocene calendar	9816
Iranian calendar	806 BP – 805 BP
Islamic calendar	831 BH – 830 BH
Julian calendar	N/A
Korean calendar	2149
Minguo calendar	2096 before ROC 民前2096年
Seleucid era	127/128 AG
Thai solar calendar	358–359

Year 185 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Pulcher and Puditanus (or, less frequently, year 569 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 185 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

• The Roman general Scipio Africanus and his brother Lucius are accused by Cato the Elder and his supporters of having received bribes from the late Seleucid king Antiochus III. Scipio defies his accusers, reminds the Romans of their debt to him, and retires to his country house at Liternum in Campania. However, Cato is successful in breaking the political influence of Lucius Scipio and Scipio Africanus.

Egypt

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

India

• Pushyamitra Shunga assassinates the Mauryan emperor Brhadrata, which brings an end to that dynasty, after which he founds the Shunga 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)

References