177 BC

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177 BC in various calendars
Gregorian calendar 177 BC
CLXXVII BC
Ab urbe condita 577
Ancient Egypt era XXXIII dynasty, 147
- Pharaoh Ptolemy VI Philometor, 4
Ancient Greek era 150th Olympiad, year 4
Assyrian calendar 4574
Balinese saka calendar N/A
Bengali calendar −769
Berber calendar 774
Buddhist calendar 368
Burmese calendar −814
Byzantine calendar 5332–5333
Chinese calendar 癸亥年 (Water  Pig)
2521 or 2314
     to 
甲子年 (Wood  Rat)
2522 or 2315
Coptic calendar −460 – −459
Discordian calendar 990
Ethiopian calendar −184 – −183
Hebrew calendar 3584–3585
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat −120 – −119
 - Shaka Samvat N/A
 - Kali Yuga 2924–2925
Holocene calendar 9824
Iranian calendar 798 BP – 797 BP
Islamic calendar 823 BH – 822 BH
Javanese calendar N/A
Julian calendar N/A
Korean calendar 2157
Minguo calendar 2088 before ROC
民前2088年
Nanakshahi calendar −1644
Seleucid era 135/136 AG
Thai solar calendar 366–367
Tibetan calendar 阴水猪年
(female Water-Pig)
−50 or −431 or −1203
     to 
阳木鼠年
(male Wood-Rat)
−49 or −430 or −1202

Year 177 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Pulcher and Gracchus (or, less frequently, year 577 Ab urbe condita ). The denomination 177 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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