189 BC

Year 189 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Nobilior and Vulso (or, less frequently, year 565 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 189 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.

189 BC in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	189 BC CLXXXIX BC
Ab urbe condita	565
Ancient Egypt era	XXXIII dynasty, 135
- Pharaoh	Ptolemy V Epiphanes, 15
Ancient Greek Olympiad (summer)	147th Olympiad, year 4
Assyrian calendar	4562
Balinese saka calendar	N/A
Bengali calendar	−782 – −781
Berber calendar	762
Buddhist calendar	356
Burmese calendar	−826
Byzantine calendar	5320–5321
Chinese calendar	辛亥年 (Metal Pig) 2509 or 2302     — to — 壬子年 (Water Rat) 2510 or 2303
Coptic calendar	−472 – −471
Discordian calendar	978
Ethiopian calendar	−196 – −195
Hebrew calendar	3572–3573
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	−132 – −131
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	2912–2913
Holocene calendar	9812
Iranian calendar	810 BP – 809 BP
Islamic calendar	835 BH – 834 BH
Javanese calendar	N/A
Julian calendar	N/A
Korean calendar	2145
Minguo calendar	2100 before ROC 民前2100年
Nanakshahi calendar	−1656
Seleucid era	123/124 AG
Thai solar calendar	354–355
Tibetan calendar	ལྕགས་མོ་ཕག་ལོ་ (female Iron-Boar) −62 or −443 or −1215     — to — ཆུ་ཕོ་བྱི་བ་ལོ་ (male Water-Rat) −61 or −442 or −1214

Events

By place

Roman Republic

• Cato the Elder criticizes the consul Marcus Fulvius Nobilior for giving awards to Roman soldiers for doing ordinary tasks, such as digging wells.

Greece

• The defeat of Antiochus III by the Romans in the Battle of Magnesia robs the Aetolian League of its principal foreign ally and makes it impossible for them to stand alone in continued opposition to Rome. The League is forced to sign a peace treaty with Rome that makes it a subject ally of the Republic. Although the League continues to exist in name, the power of the League is broken by the treaty and it never again constitutes a significant political or military force.

Asia Minor

• The Romans under consul Gnaeus Manlius Vulso, along with a Pergamene army under Eumenes II, defeat the Galatians in Anatolia and make them subjects of Pergamum.
• The city of Philadelphia (now Alaşehir, Turkey) is founded by King Eumenes II of Pergamon. Eumenes names the city after his brother, Attalus, whose loyalty earns him the nickname, "Philadelphus", literally meaning "one who loves his brother".
• The territory of Artsakh first became known for being inhabited by Armenians-notably within the city of Tigranakert, one of four cities named after Tigranes the Great in the ancient Armenian empire.

Deaths

• Fan Kuai, Chinese general and politician of the Han dynasty (during the Chu-Han Contention)
• Liu Fei, Chinese prince and proclaimed king of the former Qi State (Zhou dynasty) (b. 221 BC)
• Zhang Liang, Chinese rebel and taoist, who has helped Liu Bang establish the Han dynasty (b. 262 BC)