# 148 BC

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Calendar year

Years Millennium 1st millennium BC Centuries 3rd century BC 2nd century BC 1st century BC Decades 160s BC 150s BC 140s BC 130s BC 120s BC Years 151 BC 150 BC 149 BC 148 BC 147 BC 146 BC 145 BC v t e

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148 BC in various calendars Gregorian calendar 148 BC CXLVIII BC Ab urbe condita 606 Ancient Egypt era XXXIII dynasty, 176 - Pharaoh Ptolemy VI Philometor, 33 Ancient Greek Olympiad (summer) 158th Olympiad (victor)¹ Assyrian calendar 4603 Balinese saka calendar N/A Bengali calendar −741 – −740 Berber calendar 803 Buddhist calendar 397 Burmese calendar −785 Byzantine calendar 5361–5362 Chinese calendar 壬辰年 (Water Dragon) 2550 or 2343 — to — 癸巳年 (Water Snake) 2551 or 2344 Coptic calendar −431 – −430 Discordian calendar 1019 Ethiopian calendar −155 – −154 Hebrew calendar 3613–3614 Hindu calendars - Vikram Samvat −91 – −90 - Shaka Samvat N/A - Kali Yuga 2953–2954 Holocene calendar 9853 Iranian calendar 769 BP – 768 BP Islamic calendar 793 BH – 792 BH Javanese calendar N/A Julian calendar N/A Korean calendar 2186 Minguo calendar 2059 before ROC 民前2059年 Nanakshahi calendar −1615 Seleucid era 164/165 AG Thai solar calendar 395–396 Tibetan calendar ཆུ་ཕོ་འབྲུག་ལོ་ (male Water-Dragon) −21 or −402 or −1174 — to — ཆུ་མོ་སྦྲུལ་ལོ་ (female Water-Snake) −20 or −401 or −1173

Year **148 BC** was a year of the [pre-Julian Roman calendar](/source/Roman_calendar). At the time it was known as the **Year of the Consulship of Magnus and Caesoninus** (or, less frequently, **year 606 *[Ab urbe condita](/source/Ab_urbe_condita)***). The denomination 148 BC for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the [Anno Domini](/source/Anno_Domini) [calendar era](/source/Calendar_era) became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

## Events

### By place

#### Ireland

- [Corlea Trackway](/source/Corlea_Trackway) built in [County Longford](/source/County_Longford)

#### Roman Republic

- With the defeat of [Andriscus](/source/Andriscus) in the [Battle of Pydna](/source/Battle_of_Pydna_(148_BC)) by [Quintus Caecilius Metellus Macedonicus](/source/Quintus_Caecilius_Metellus_Macedonicus), [Macedon](/source/Macedon) is reorganized as a [Roman](/source/Roman_Republic) province by [146 BC](/source/146_BC).

- Construction of the [Via Postumia](/source/Via_Postumia), linking [Aquileia](/source/Aquileia) and [Genua](/source/Genoa).

- [Publius Cornelius Scipio Aemilianus](/source/Publius_Cornelius_Scipio_Aemilianus) divides [Numidia](/source/Numidia) among the three sons of the recently deceased [Masinissa](/source/Masinissa).

#### Hellenistic Egypt

- [Demetrius II Nicator](/source/Demetrius_II_Nicator), claimant to the Seleucid throne had challenged [Alexander Balas](/source/Alexander_Balas), in view of the threat of such an invasion [Ptolemy VI Philometor](/source/Ptolemy_VI_Philometor) entered [Coele-Syria](/source/Coele-Syria), passing through the cities of [Ashdod](/source/Ashdod) and [Jaffa](/source/Jaffa), to Ptolemais. [1]

## Births

## Deaths

- [Liu Rong](/source/Liu_Rong), Chinese crown prince of the [Han dynasty](/source/Han_dynasty)

- [Masinissa](/source/Masinissa), king of [Numidia](/source/Numidia) (b. c. [238 BC](/source/238_BC))

- [Yuan Ang](/source/Yuan_Ang), Chinese statesman of the Han dynasty

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** ["E. R. Bevan: The House of Ptolemy • Chap. IX"](https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Gazetteer/Places/Africa/Egypt/_Texts/BEVHOP/9*.html). *penelope.uchicago.edu*. Retrieved March 2, 2026.

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