2nd century BC

(3rd century BC - 2nd century BC - 1st century BC - other centuries)

(2nd millennium BC - 1st millennium BC - 1st millennium AD)

Events

• BC 168 Battle of Pydna -- Macedonian phalanx defeated by Romans
• BC 148 Rome conquers Macedonia
• BC 146 Rome destroys Carthage in the Third Punic War
• BC 146 Rome conquers Corinth
• about 120 BC -- opening of silk road
• Judas Maccabaeus restores the Temple in Jerusalem
• Theravada Buddhism is officially introduced to Sri Lanka by the Venerable Mahinda

Significant persons

• Flaccus, musical collaborator of Terence
• Plautus, Latin playwright
• Terence, Latin playwright

Inventions, discoveries, introductions

• Silk Road between Europe and Asia
• Hipparchus discovers precession of Earth's equinoxes and compiles first trigonometric tables

Decades and years