180 B.C. Olympiad 150.1Click on the links in the lists of references to go to the sources for each event
| 1 | ROM Piso dies of the plague, and Q.Fulvius is elected consul in his place.
* Read Livy's account @ +Liv_40.36'14-37'7,* 43'1-3; +FastCap_p64. |
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| 2 | ASI Pharnaces renews the war against Eumenes.
@ ~Polyb_24.14'1-9; {CAH_8'329.} |
| 3 | CIS The consuls of the previous year force 40,000 Ligurians to migrate to Samnium.
@ +Liv_40.37'8-38'9; {CAH_8'116, '202.} |
| 4 | PEL Ptolemaeus V gives a squadron of ships as a gift to the Achaean League.
@ ~Polyb_24.6'1-7; {See Walbank, p.258.} |
| 5 | SPA Q.Flaccus defeats the Celtiberi at Saltus Manlianus.
* Read Livy's account @ +Liv_40.39'1-40'15,* 45'6, 42.34'9-10. |
| 6 | MAC << Philippus has Demetrius put to death, on a charge of treason.
* Read Livy's account @ ~Diod_29.25'1; ~Liv_40.23'1-24'8,* 54'9-55'8, 42.5'4; Plut:Aem_8'9, '12, :Arat_54'6-7; Paus_2.9'5; Just_32.2'10; Trog:Prol_32; ~Oros_4.20'28;L Zonar_9.22'a; {CAH_8'295; OCD_p.} |
| 7 | PEL << Chaeron of Sparta is sent to prison for the murder of Apollonidas.
* Read Suda's account @ ~Polyb_24.7'1-8; Suda_Ch'175;* {See Walbank, p.17-18.} |
| 8 | ++ The character and policies of Aristaenus of Dyme, an Achaean statesman.
* Read Suda's account @ ~Polyb_24.11'1-13'10; Suda_A'3897;* {See Walbank, p.19.} |
| 9 | ROM The senate receives embassies from the Achaeans, led by Callicrates, and from the Spartan exiles.
@ ~Polyb_24.8'9-10'13; {CAH_8'300; OCD_c.} |
| 10 | CIS The consuls combine to subdue some Ligurian tribes, after which M.Fulvius illegally disbands his legion.
* Read Livy's account @ +Liv_40.41'1-11;* Frontin:Str_4.1'32; Flor_1.19'4-5;L {CAH_8'116.} |
| 11 | ASI A Roman embassy mediates between Pharnaces and Eumenes.
@ ~Polyb_24.14'10-15'13; {CAH_8'329.} |
| 12 | EGY << Ptolemaeus describes his friends as his "walking money-bags".
* Read Porphyrius' account @ Diod_29.29'1; Porph:Fr_48;* {According to St.Jerome (on Daniel) Ptolemaeus's threatening remark, recorded by Diodorus, immediately preceded his death.} |
| 13 | {Sept./Oct.} The death of Ptolemaeus V, and accession of Ptolemaeus VI.
@ Strab_17.795'e;(1.11) Joseph:AJ_12'235; ClemAl:Strom_1.21'w; Trog:Prol_34; +AstrCan_3; Porph:Fr_48; [Euseb]:Chron_127'c, ~161'c-d, 163'a-b, 169'd; ChronPasc_437'B; !Hieron:Chron_1838; Malal_197; ExcBarb_35B; Zonar_9.25'a; {CAH_8'343; OCD_p.} |
| 14 | ROM Elections are held for new consuls and praetors; Flaccus is elected consul, while waiting outside Rome.
* Read Livy's account @ Cic:DeOr_2'260;L +Liv_40.43'4,* 44'2. |
| 15 | Flaccus celebrates a triumph for his victories in Spain.
* Read Livy's account @ +Liv_40.43'4-7,* 59'3. |
| 16 | PEL Callicrates is elected strategus of the Achaean League.
@ ~Polyb_24.10'14-15; {OCD_c<179>; Walbank, p.264.} |
| 17 | The assembly of the Achaean League decides to send an embassy to Rome about the Spartan exiles.
@ ~Polyb_24.8'1-8; {See Walbank, p.18-19.} |
| 18 | ASI Eumenes attempts to prevent ships sailing through the Hellespont into the Black Sea, but the Rhodians intervene to stop him.
@ Polyb_27.7'5; {CAH_8'329.} |
| 19 | ROM M.Lepidus becomes pontifex maximus.
* Read Livy's account @ Liv_37.43'1, +40.42'6-13;* {OCD_l.} |
| 20 | == The Lex Villia Annalis establishes minimum ages for magistrates.
@ +Liv_40.44'1; {CAH_8'176; OCD_v.} |
| 21 | == L.Duronius accuses the Illyrian king Genthius of encouraging piracy.
@ +Liv_40.42'1-5. |
| 22 | {March -R = ?December} Flaccus pays for games out of the booty which he brought back from Spain.
@ +Liv_40.44'3-12. |
| 23 | LYC ?? Date of writing 0f Sherk1+_18, a decree of Araxa in honour of Orthagoras. |
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