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190 BC

Centuries: 3rd century BC - 2nd century BC - 1st century BC

Decades: 240s BC 230s BC 220s BC 210s BC 200s BC - 190s BC - 180s BC 170s BC 160s BC 150s BC 140s BC

Years: 195 BC 194 BC 193 BC 192 BC 191 BC - 190 BC - 189 BC 188 BC 187 BC 186 BC 185 BC

Events

• Battle of the Eurymedon: Roman forces under Lucius Aemilius Regillus defeat a Seleucid fleet commanded by Hannibal, fighting his last battle.
• Battle of Myonessus: Another Seleucid fleet is defeated by the Romans under Lucius Regillus.
• December: Battle of Magnesia. Seleucids under Antiochus III the Great of Syria defeated by Romans under Scipio Asiaticus, his brother Scipio Africanus Major (who stayed behind because of an illness, but planned the operations), and Gnaeus Domitius, with the reinforcement led by Eumenes II of Pergamum.
• The Via Appia is extended to Benevento and Venosa
• Demetrius I of Bactria is joined by two younger younger co-rulers. Euthydemus II and Pantaleon are presumed to be his sons.(approximate date).

Births

• Hipparchus, Greek astronomer and mathematician, in Nicaea, Bithynia (now Turkey) (+ 120 BC) (approximate date, another possible date is 194 BC).

Deaths

• Dionysius Thrax, Greek scholar. (approximate date)

Category: 190 BC

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