183 BC

Millennium:	1st millennium BC
Centuries:	3rd century BC – 2nd century BC – 1st century BC
Decades:	210s BC 200s BC 190s BC – 180s BC – 170s BC 160s BC 150s BC
Years:	186 BC 185 BC 184 BC – 183 BC – 182 BC 181 BC 180 BC

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

**183 BC in other calendars**
Gregorian calendar	183 BC
Ab urbe condita	571
Armenian calendar	N/A
Bahá'í calendar	-2026 – -2025
Bengali calendar	-775
Berber calendar	768
Buddhist calendar	362
Burmese calendar	-820
Byzantine calendar	5326 – 5327
Chinese calendar	[[Sexagenary cycle\|]]年 (2454/2514) — to — [[Sexagenary cycle\|]]年 (2455/2515)
Coptic calendar	-466 – -465
Ethiopian calendar	-190 – -189
Hebrew calendar	3578 – 3579
Hindu calendars
- Bikram Samwat	-126 – -125
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	2919 – 2920
Holocene calendar	9818
Iranian calendar	804 BP – 803 BP
Islamic calendar	829 BH – 828 BH
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar	2151
Thai solar calendar	361

Events

Roman colonies are established at Mutina (later Modena), Pisa and Parma in northern and central Italy.
The Roman general Scipio Africanus dies at Liternum in Campania.
The Roman statesman Titus Quinctius Flamininus is sent to the court of Prusias I, king of Bithynia, to demand the surrender of the former Carthaginian statesman and general Hannibal. When Hannibal finds out that Prusias is about to agree to the Roman demands and thus betray him, he poisons himself in the village of Libyssa in Bithynia.

The town of Messene rebels against the Achaean 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.

Publius Cornelius Scipio Nasica Serapio, consul in 138 BC, who will have a prominent part in the murder of Tiberius Gracchus by leading a group of conservative senators and other knights in opposition to Gracchus and his supporters (d. 132 BC)

Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus Major, Roman statesman and general, famous for his victory over the Carthaginian leader Hannibal in the Battle of Zama in 202 BC, which has ended the Second Punic War and given him the surname Africanus (b. 236 BC)
Philopoemen, Greek general and statesman, strategos of the Achaean League on eight occasions and a major figure in the demise of Sparta 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 the Second Punic War (b. 247 BC)