186 BC

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186 BC in various calendars
Gregorian calendar 186 BC
CLXXXVI BC
Ab urbe condita 568
Ancient Egypt era XXXIII dynasty, 138
- Pharaoh Ptolemy V Epiphanes, 18
Ancient Greek era 148th Olympiad, year 3
Assyrian calendar 4565
Balinese saka calendar N/A
Bengali calendar −778
Berber calendar 765
Buddhist calendar 359
Burmese calendar −823
Byzantine calendar 5323–5324
Chinese calendar 甲寅年 (Wood  Tiger)
2512 or 2305
     to 
乙卯年 (Wood  Rabbit)
2513 or 2306
Coptic calendar −469 – −468
Discordian calendar 981
Ethiopian calendar −193 – −192
Hebrew calendar 3575–3576
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat −129 – −128
 - Shaka Samvat N/A
 - Kali Yuga 2915–2916
Holocene calendar 9815
Iranian calendar 807 BP – 806 BP
Islamic calendar 832 BH – 831 BH
Javanese calendar N/A
Julian calendar N/A
Korean calendar 2148
Minguo calendar 2097 before ROC
民前2097年
Nanakshahi calendar −1653
Seleucid era 126/127 AG
Thai solar calendar 357–358
Tibetan calendar 阳木虎年
(male Wood-Tiger)
−59 or −440 or −1212
     to 
阴木兔年
(female Wood-Rabbit)
−58 or −439 or −1211

Year 186 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Albinus and Philippus (or, less frequently, year 568 Ab urbe condita ). The denomination 186 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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  • The rapid spread of the Bacchanalia cult throughout the Roman Republic, which, it is claimed, indulges in all kinds of crimes and political conspiracies at its nocturnal meetings, leads to the Roman Senate issuing a decree, the Senatus consultum de Bacchanalibus , by which the Bacchanalia are prohibited throughout all Italy except in certain special cases which must be approved specifically by the Senate.

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