2nd century BC, 2nd century BC - Decades and years, 2nd century BC - Events, 2nd century BC - Inventions, discoveries, introductions, 2nd century BC - Significant persons
ARTICLES RELATED TO 2nd century BC - Significant persons
(2nd millennium BC - 1st millennium BC - 1st millennium)
2nd century BC - Events.
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
164 BC - Judas Maccabaeus, son of Mattathias of the Hasmonean family, restores the Temple in Jerusalem. Events commemorated each year by the fe ...
