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147 BC
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| 147 BC by topic | |
| Politics | |
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| Gregorian calendar | 147 BC |
| Ab urbe condita | 607 |
| Armenian calendar | N/A |
| Bahá'í calendar | -1990 – -1989 |
| Berber calendar | 804 |
| Buddhist calendar | 398 |
| Burmese calendar | -784 |
| Byzantine calendar | 5362 – 5363 |
| Chinese calendar | [[Sexagenary cycle|]]年 (2490/2550) — to —
甲年(2491/2551) |
| Coptic calendar | -430 – -429 |
| Ethiopian calendar | -154 – -153 |
| Hebrew calendar | 3614 – 3615 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | -91 – -90 |
| - Shaka Samvat | N/A |
| - Kali Yuga | 2955 – 2956 |
| Holocene calendar | 9854 |
| Iranian calendar | 768 BP – 767 BP |
| Islamic calendar | 792 BH – 791 BH |
| Japanese calendar | |
| Korean calendar | 2187 |
| Thai solar calendar | 397 |
147 BC was a year in the second century BC.
[edit] Events
[edit] By place
[edit] Rome
- Scipio Aemilianus takes command in the Battle of Carthage.
[edit] Syria
- Demetrius II of Syria returns to Syria. (approximate)
- Jonathan Maccabaeus conquers Joppa.
[edit] Greece
- Greece becomes a part of the Roman empire
[edit] Births
- Lokaksema, a Buddhist monk from Gandhara (modern Pakistan/Afghanistan), Yuezhi in ethnicity, the first to translate Mahayana scriptures into the Chinese language during the Han Dynasty.