149 BC

149 BC in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	149 BC CXLIX BC
Ab urbe condita	605
Ancient Egypt era	XXXIII dynasty, 175
- Pharaoh	Ptolemy VI Philometor, 32
Ancient Greek Olympiad (summer)	157th Olympiad, year 4
Assyrian calendar	4602
Balinese saka calendar	N/A
Bengali calendar	−742 – −741
Berber calendar	802
Buddhist calendar	396
Burmese calendar	−786
Byzantine calendar	5360–5361
Chinese calendar	辛卯年 (Metal Rabbit) 2549 or 2342     — to — 壬辰年 (Water Dragon) 2550 or 2343
Coptic calendar	−432 – −431
Discordian calendar	1018
Ethiopian calendar	−156 – −155
Hebrew calendar	3612–3613
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	−92 – −91
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	2952–2953
Holocene calendar	9852
Iranian calendar	770 BP – 769 BP
Islamic calendar	794 BH – 793 BH
Javanese calendar	N/A
Julian calendar	N/A
Korean calendar	2185
Minguo calendar	2060 before ROC 民前2060年
Nanakshahi calendar	−1616
Seleucid era	163/164 AG
Thai solar calendar	394–395
Tibetan calendar	ལྕགས་མོ་ཡོས་ལོ་ (female Iron-Hare) −22 or −403 or −1175     — to — ཆུ་ཕོ་འབྲུག་ལོ་ (male Water-Dragon) −21 or −402 or −1174

Year 149 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Censorinus and Manilius (or, less frequently, year 605 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 149 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 Third Punic War begins. The Romans land an army in Africa to begin the Battle of Carthage.
• Servius Sulpicius Galba is prosecuted for corruption while serving in Spain, but is acquitted after he parades his weeping family members before the tribunal.
• Lucius Calpurnius Piso passes the lex Calpurnia de repetundis which establishes the first permanent criminal court in Rome.
• The turmoil in Spain escalates again with the renewal of the Lusitanian War, under the leadership of Viriathus, and the Celtiberian War.

Macedon

• Andriscus, the last king of Macedon, ascends to the throne.

Bithynia

• With Roman help, Nicomedes II overthrows his father Prusias II as king of Bithynia.

Deaths

• Cato the Elder, Roman statesman (b. 234 BC)
• Prusias II, Greek king of Bithynia (b. c. 220 BC)