163 BC

Millennium:	1st millennium BC
Centuries:	3rd century BC – 2nd century BC – 1st century BC
Decades:	190s BC 180s BC 170s BC – 160s BC – 150s BC 140s BC 130s BC
Years:	166 BC 165 BC 164 BC – 163 BC – 162 BC 161 BC 160 BC

163 BC by topic
Politics
State leaders – Sovereign states
Birth and death categories
Births – Deaths
Establishments and disestablishments categories
Establishments – Disestablishments

**163 BC in other calendars**
Gregorian calendar	163 BC
Ab urbe condita	591
Armenian calendar	N/A
Bahá'í calendar	-2006 – -2005
Bengali calendar	-755
Berber calendar	788
Buddhist calendar	382
Burmese calendar	-800
Byzantine calendar	5346 – 5347
Chinese calendar	[[Sexagenary cycle\|]]年 (2474/2534) — to — [[Sexagenary cycle\|]]年 (2475/2535)
Coptic calendar	-446 – -445
Ethiopian calendar	-170 – -169
Hebrew calendar	3598 – 3599
Hindu calendars
- Bikram Samwat	-106 – -105
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	2939 – 2940
Holocene calendar	9838
Iranian calendar	784 BP – 783 BP
Islamic calendar	808 BH – 807 BH
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar	2171
Thai solar calendar	381

Events

The Egyptian king Ptolemy VI Philometor is restored to his throne through the intervention of the citizens of Alexandria. However, the Romans intervene and decide to partition the Ptolemaic realm, ordering Ptolemy VIII Euergetes into Cyrenaica and giving Ptolemy VI Cyprus and Egypt. The two brothers accept the Roman partition.

In the turmoil following the death of Antiochus IV, the governor of Media, Timarchus becomes the independent ruler of Media, opposing Lysias who is acting as regent for young king Antiochus V Eupator.
Lysias tries to make peace with the Jews in Judea. He offers them full religious freedom if they will lay down their arms. Even though the Chasidim consent, Judas Maccabeus argues for full political as well as religious freedom.

The Roman playwright Terence's play Heauton Timorumenos ("The Self-Tormentor") is first performed.^[1]

Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus, Roman politician, who, as a plebeian tribune, will cause political turmoil in the Republic through his attempts to legislate agrarian reforms; his political ideals will eventually lead to his death at the hands of supporters of the conservative faction (Optimates) of the Roman Senate (d. 132 BC)
Marcus Aemilius Scaurus, Roman politician and ambassador (d. 89 BC)

Zhang Yan, known formally as Empress Xiaohui, empress of the Chinese Han Dynasty