2nd century BC

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Centuries:	3rd century BC - 2nd century BC - 1st century BC
Decades:	190s BC 180s 170s 160s 150s 140s 130s 120s 110s 100s BC

Millennia:		2nd millennium BC -	1st millennium BC -	1st millennium

The 2nd century BC started the first day of 200 BC and ended the last day of 101 BC.

1 Events
2 Significant persons
3 Inventions, discoveries, introductions
4 Decades and years

[edit] Events

Coin of Antiochus IV. Reverse shows Apollo seated on an omphalos. The Greek inscription reads ΑΝΤΙΟΧΟΥ ΘΕΟΥ ΕΠΙΦΑΝΟΥ ΝΙΚΗΦΟΡΟΥ (Antiochus, image of God, bearer of victory). He was the last ruler of the Seleucid Empire to rule unopposed

190 BC March 14: Solar eclipse recorded in Rome [Livy: Ab Urbe Condita 37.4.4].
175 BC - Antiochus IV Epiphanes, took possession of the Syrian throne, at the murder of his brother Seleucus IV Philopator, which rightly belonged to his nephew Demetrius I Soter.
168 BC - Battle of Pydna - The Macedonian phalanx defeated by Romans.
168 BC, June 21: Lunar eclipse recorded in Rome [Livy: Ab Urbe Condita 44.37.8].
164 BC November 21: Judas Maccabaeus, son of Mattathias of the Hasmonean family, restores the Temple in Jerusalem. Events commemorated each year by the festival of Hanukkah.
147 BC - Hasmonean victories restore autonomy to Judea.
148 BC - Rome conquers Macedonia.
- Rome destroys Carthage in the Third Punic War.
- Rome conquers Corinth.
129 BC - collapse of the Seleucid Empire.
108 BC - Han Dynasty finally destroyed Wang-geom seong, the capital of Gojoseon. And Han Dynasty founded Sagunhyeon to govern Gojoseon.
113 BC–101 BC - Migration of the Cimbri and the Teutons, defeated at the battles of Aquae Sextiae and Vercellae.
Theravada Buddhism is officially introduced to Sri Lanka by the Venerable Mahinda.
2nd or 1st century BC - Hagesandros, Polydoros, Athanadoros of Rhodes make Laocoön and his Sons. Perhaps the original or a Roman copy of the 1st century AD is discovered in 1506. It is now at Musei Vaticani, Museo Pio Clementino, Cortile Ottagono, Rome.
Market woman is made. It is now at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Porta Augusta, Perugia, is built.

[edit] Significant persons

Gaius Marius, instigator of the Marian reforms which allowed the recruitment of landless citizens as professional soldiers

Andriscus, last independent ruler of Macedon.
Antiochus IV Epiphanes, the last effective ruler of the Seleucid Empire.
Antiochus VII Sidetes, last King of a United Seleucid Empire.
Apollonius of Perga, Greek geometer
Apollonius of Rhodes, author of Jason and the Argonauts
Boiorix, King of the Cimbri.
Flaccus, musical collaborator of Terence.
Hipparchus, considered the greatest astronomical observer.
Jonathan Maccabaeus, leader of the Hasmonean rebellion and first autonomous ruler of Judea.
Judas Maccabeus, leader of the Hasmonean rebellion and its first successful general.
Lucius Aemilius Paullus Macedonicus, Roman general and politician.
Lucius Cornelius Sulla, Roman general and politician.
Lucius Mummius Achaicus, conqueror of Corinth.
Marius, Roman general and politician.
Perseus of Macedon, last King of the Antigonid dynasty.
Plautus, Latin playwright.
Quintus Lutatius Catulus, Roman general.
Scipio Aemilianus Africanus, conqueror of Carthage.
Terence, Latin playwright.
Teutobod, King of the Teutons.
Emperor Wu of Han, considered one of the greatest emperors throughout the History of China.
Zhang Qian, Chinese diplomat and explorer.

[edit] Inventions, discoveries, introductions

Hipparchus' equatorial ring.

Silk Road between Europe and Asia
Hipparchus discovers precession of Earth's equinoxes and compiles first trigonometric tables
Liu An invented tofu
The Roman concrete (puzzolana) first used
Rotary mill invented by the ancient Greeks
A system for sending signs to communicate quickly over a long distance is described by Polybios

[edit] Decades and years

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