190s BC

Millennium:	1st millennium BC
Centuries:	3rd century BC – 2nd century BC – 1st century BC
Decades:	220s BC 210s BC 200s BC – 190s BC – 180s BC 170s BC 160s BC
Years:	199 BC 198 BC 197 BC 196 BC 195 BC 194 BC 193 BC 192 BC 191 BC 190 BC
Categories:	Births – Deaths – Architecture Establishments – Disestablishments

Contents 1 Events and trends 2 Births 2.1 195 2.2 190 3 Deaths 3.1 197 3.2 196 3.3 195 3.4 194 3.5 193 3.6 192 3.7 191 3.8 190

Events and trends

• For Ptolemy V of Egypt, the priests erected the "Decree of Memphis (Ptolemy V)", the named Rosetta Stone.

Births

195

• Mithridates I (or Mithradates), "Great King" of Parthia from about 171 BC who will turn Parthia into a major political power and expand the empire westward into Mesopotamia (d. 138 BC)
• Terence or Publius Terentius Afer, Roman comic playwright (approximate date) (d. 159 BC)

190

• Hipparchus, Greek astronomer, geographer, and mathematician (d. c. 120 BC)
• Cornelia Scipionis Africana, second daughter of Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus and Aemilia Paulla. She will be considered by Roman society to be the perfect example of a virtuous Roman woman (d. 100 BC)

Deaths

197

• Attalus I Soter, ruler of Pergamum from 241 BC, who has taken on the title of king after about 230 BC. Through his military and diplomatic skills, he has created a powerful kingdom in Anatolia (b. 269 BC)

196

• Han Xin (Marquess of Huaiyin), military commander who has served under Liu Bang, the founder of the Han dynasty
• Han Xin, descendant of the Han (state) royal house and general of the Western Han Dynasty

195

• Gaozu of Han (or Gao), first Emperor of the Chinese Han Dynasty, who has ruled from 202 BC (b. 256 or 247 BC)

194

• Eratosthenes, Greek mathematician, geographer and astronomer (b. 276 BC)
• Concubine Qi, also known as Lady Qi or Consort Qi, favoured concubine of Han Gaozu (personal name Liu Bang), the first emperor of the Chinese Han Dynasty

193

• Xiao He, prime minister of the early Han Dynasty in China who has been a key figure in Liu Bang's rise to power after the fall of the Qin Dynasty

192

• Nabis, tyrant and last independent ruler (from 207 BC) of Sparta

191

• Arsaces II, King of Parthia, who has reigned from about 211 BC (murdered)

190

• Apollonius of Perga, Greek mathematician, geometer and astronomer of the Alexandrian school, known by his contemporaries as "The Great Geometer," whose treatise "Conics" is one of the greatest scientific works from the ancient world (b. c. 262 BC)