- 183 BC
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Events
By place
Roman Republic
* Roman colonies are established at
Mutina (laterModena ),Pisa andParma in northern and centralItaly .
* The Roman generalScipio Africanus dies atLiternum inCampania .
* The Roman statesmanTitus Quinctius Flamininus is sent to the court ofPrusias I , king ofBithynia , to demand the surrender of the former Carthaginian statesman and generalHannibal . When Hannibal finds out that Prusias is about to agree to the Roman demands and thus betray him, he poisons himself in the village ofLibyssa in Bithynia.Greece
* The town of
Messene rebels against theAchaean League . When the Achaean League's general,Philopoemen , intervenes to try and control the rebellion, he is captured during a skirmish and imprisoned. He is then given poison to take so that he can die honourably.Births
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Publius Cornelius Scipio Nasica Serapio , consul in138 BC , who will have a prominent part in the murder ofTiberius Gracchus by leading a group of conservative senators and other knights in opposition to Gracchus and his supporters (d.132 BC )Deaths
* Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus Major, Roman statesman and general, famous for his victory over the Carthaginian leader
Hannibal in theBattle of Zama in202 BC , which has ended theSecond Punic War and given him the surname Africanus (b.236 BC )
*Philopoemen , Greek general and statesman,strategos of theAchaean League on eight occasions and a major figure in the demise ofSparta as a Greek power (b.253 BC )
*Hannibal , Carthaginian statesman, military commander and tactician, one of history's great military leaders, who has commanded the Carthaginian forces against Rome in theSecond Punic War (b.247 BC )
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