| Millennium: | 1st millennium BC |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | 3rd century BC – 2nd century BC – 1st century BC |
| Decades: | 180s BC 170s BC 160s BC – 150s BC – 140s BC 130s BC 120s BC |
| Years: | 162 BC 161 BC 160 BC – 159 BC – 158 BC 157 BC 156 BC |
| 159 BC by topic | |
| Politics | |
| State leaders – Sovereign states | |
| Birth and death categories | |
| Births – Deaths | |
| Establishments and disestablishments categories | |
| Establishments – Disestablishments | |
| Gregorian calendar | 159 BC |
| Ab urbe condita | 595 |
| Armenian calendar | N/A |
| Bahá'í calendar | -2002 – -2001 |
| Bengali calendar | -751 |
| Berber calendar | 792 |
| Buddhist calendar | 386 |
| Burmese calendar | -796 |
| Byzantine calendar | 5350 – 5351 |
| Chinese calendar | [[Sexagenary cycle|]]年 (2478/2538) — to —
[[Sexagenary cycle|]]年(2479/2539) |
| Coptic calendar | -442 – -441 |
| Ethiopian calendar | -166 – -165 |
| Hebrew calendar | 3602 – 3603 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Bikram Samwat | -102 – -101 |
| - Shaka Samvat | N/A |
| - Kali Yuga | 2943 – 2944 |
| Holocene calendar | 9842 |
| Iranian calendar | 780 BP – 779 BP |
| Islamic calendar | 804 BH – 803 BH |
| Japanese calendar | |
| Korean calendar | 2175 |
| Thai solar calendar | 385 |
Using the Holocene calendar, this is the year 9,842.