160 BC
| Centuries: | 3rd century BC · 2nd century BC · 1st century BC |
| Decades: | 190s BC 180s BC 170s BC 160s BC 150s BC 140s BC 130s BC |
| Years: | 163 BC 162 BC 161 BC 160 BC 159 BC 158 BC 157 BC |
Events
By place
Syria
- Battle of Elasa Jewish leader Judas Maccabaeus is defeated by the Selucid army of Bacchides.
Rome
- Marcus Cornelius Cethegus becomes Roman consul.
Greece
- Tychandrus becomes Archon of Athens; Sosigenes is a thesmothete (assistant archon).
Bactria
- King Apollodotus I of the Indo-Greek Kingdom and Agathocles of Bactria die and are succeeded by Menander I (approximate date).
Scandinavia
Births
- Cleopatra III of Egypt (estimated).
Deaths
- Lucius Aemilius Paullus Macedonicus, Roman general.
- Eumenes II Soter, Attalid king of Pergamum.
- King Apollodotus I of the Indo-Greek Kingdom (approximate date).
- Agathocles of Bactria (approximate date).
- Judas Maccabaeus, Jewish leader (killed in battle).
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160 BC