147 BC

__NOTOC__147 BC was a year in the second century BC.

Events

By place

Rome

* Scipio Aemilianus takes command in the Battle of Carthage.

yria

* Demetrius II of Syria returns to Syria. (approximate)
* Jonathan Maccabaeus conquers Joppa.

Greece

* Greece becomes a part of the Roman empire

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.

Deaths

* Empress Bo