Millennium: 1st millennium BC
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
170 BC in various calendars
Gregorian calendar170 BC
CLXX BC
Ab urbe condita584
Ancient Egypt eraXXXIII dynasty, 154
- PharaohPtolemy VI Philometor, 11
Ancient Greek era152nd Olympiad, year 3
Assyrian calendar4581
Balinese saka calendarN/A
Bengali calendar−762
Berber calendar781
Buddhist calendar375
Burmese calendar−807
Byzantine calendar5339–5340
Chinese calendar庚午年 (Metal Horse)
2528 or 2321
     to 
辛未年 (Metal Goat)
2529 or 2322
Coptic calendar−453 – −452
Discordian calendar997
Ethiopian calendar−177 – −176
Hebrew calendar3591–3592
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat−113 – −112
 - Shaka SamvatN/A
 - Kali Yuga2931–2932
Holocene calendar9831
Iranian calendar791 BP – 790 BP
Islamic calendar815 BH – 814 BH
Javanese calendarN/A
Julian calendarN/A
Korean calendar2164
Minguo calendar2081 before ROC
民前2081年
Nanakshahi calendar−1637
Seleucid era142/143 AG
Thai solar calendar373–374
Tibetan calendar阳金马年
(male Iron-Horse)
−43 or −424 or −1196
     to 
阴金羊年
(female Iron-Goat)
−42 or −423 or −1195

Year 170 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Mancinus and Serranus (or, less frequently, year 584 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 170 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.

Events

By place

Greece

Egypt

  • With the guardians of the young king Ptolemy VI Philometor demanding the return of Coele-Syria to Egyptian control, the Seleucid king, Antiochus IV Epiphanes, decides on a preemptive strike against Egypt and invades the country, conquering all but the city of Alexandria. He is also able to capture Ptolemy VI.
  • Antiochus IV decides to let Ptolemy VI continue as king of Egypt, but as his puppet. He does this to minimise any reaction from Rome towards his invasion. Antiochus IV then departs Egypt to deal with disturbances in Palestine, but he safeguards his access to Egypt with a strong garrison in Pelusium.
  • With Antiochus IV now absent from the country, the citizens of Alexandria choose Ptolemy VI's brother Ptolemy VIII Euergetes II as their king. The two Ptolemy brothers agree to rule Egypt jointly with their sister Cleopatra II and Coele Syria is invaded by the Egyptian forces.

Seleucid Empire

  • The usurped high priest of Judea, Jason, does not abandon his claims to being the high priest which he has lost to Menelaus two years earlier. While Antiochus IV is waging war against Egypt, he succeeds in making himself master of Jerusalem once more and forces Menelaus to seek refuge in the citadel.

Bactria

Births

Deaths

    References

    1. Roberts, John. The Oxford dictionary of the classical world. Oxford University Press. p. 1. ISBN 9780192801463.
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