180 BC

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Millennium: 1st millennium BC
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180 BC in various calendars
Gregorian calendar 180 BC
CLXXIX BC
Ab urbe condita 574
Ancient Egypt era XXXIII dynasty, 144
- Pharaoh Ptolemy VI Philometor, 1
Ancient Greek era 150th Olympiad (victor
Assyrian calendar 4571
Balinese saka calendar N/A
Bengali calendar −772
Berber calendar 771
Buddhist calendar 365
Burmese calendar −817
Byzantine calendar 5329–5330
Chinese calendar 庚申(Metal  Monkey)
2517 or 2457
     to 
辛酉年 (Metal  Rooster)
2518 or 2458
Coptic calendar −463 – −462
Discordian calendar 987
Ethiopian calendar −187 – −186
Hebrew calendar 3581–3582
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat −123 – −122
 - Shaka Samvat N/A
 - Kali Yuga 2921–2922
Holocene calendar 9821
Iranian calendar 801 BP – 800 BP
Islamic calendar 826 BH – 825 BH
Javanese calendar N/A
Julian calendar N/A
Korean calendar 2154
Minguo calendar 2091 before ROC
民前2091年
Nanakshahi calendar −1647
Seleucid era 132/133 AG
Thai solar calendar 363–364
Tibetan calendar 阳金猴年
(male Iron-Monkey)
−53 or −434 or −1206
     to 
阴金鸡年
(female Iron-Rooster)
−52 or −433 or −1205

Year 180 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Luscus and Piso/Flaccus (or, less frequently, year 574 Ab urbe condita ). The denomination 180 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.

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Greece

  • After three years of intriguing against his younger brother Demetrius, including accusing him of coveting the succession to the Macedonian throne and being allied to Rome, Perseus persuades his father King Philip V of Macedon to have Demetrius executed.

Roman Republic

  • Rome completes its subjugation of all of Italy with the defeat of the Ligurians in a battle near modern Genoa. Rome deports 40,000 Ligurians to other areas of the Republic.
  • Lucca becomes a Roman colony.

Egypt

Bactria

China

  • September 26Lü Clan Disturbance. Following the death of Empress Lü, who had been the de facto ruler of the Han Dynasty, the Lü Clan is overthrown and massacred by the imperial princes Liu Zhang and Liu Xiang, General-in-Chief Zhou Bo and Prime Minister Chen Ping.
  • Fearing reprisals should the young Emperor Houshao and his brothers reach adulthood, the conspirators deny that Emperor Hui was the father of Houshao and his brothers. They overthrow the emperor, and despite the imperial pedigree of Liu Xiang as the son of the eldest son of Gaozu of Han, they eventually agree to elevate Gaozu's oldest surviving son, Emperor Wen, to the throne. After being evicted from the palace, Houshao is executed later in the year.
  • Emperor Wen honours the relatives and ancestors of Zhao Tuo, the Chinese-born ruler of Nanyue (in present-day Vietnam and southern China). As a result, Nanyue returns to the Han dynasty as a vassal, although Zhao Tuo continues to call himself an emperor within his own kingdom.

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