178 BC

Millennium:	1st millennium BC
Centuries:	3rd century BC – 2nd century BC – 1st century BC
Decades:	200s BC  190s BC  180s BC  – 170s BC –  160s BC  150s BC  140s BC
Years:	181 BC 180 BC 179 BC – 178 BC – 177 BC 176 BC 175 BC

178 BC by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

178 BC in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	178 BC
Ab urbe condita	576
Armenian calendar	N/A
Assyrian calendar	4573
Bahá'í calendar	-2021–-2020
Bengali calendar	-770
Berber calendar	773
English Regnal year	N/A
Buddhist calendar	367
Burmese calendar	-815
Byzantine calendar	5331–5332
Chinese calendar	壬戌年 (2459/2519) — to — 癸亥年 (2460/2520)
Coptic calendar	-461–-460
Ethiopian calendar	-185–-184
Hebrew calendar	3583–3584
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	-121–-120
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	2924–2925
Holocene calendar	9823
Iranian calendar	799 BP – 798 BP
Islamic calendar	824 BH – 823 BH
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar	2156
Minguo calendar	2089 before ROC 民前2089年
Thai solar calendar	366

Year 178 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Brutus and Vulso (or, less frequently, year 576 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 178 BC for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

Events

By place

Roman Republic

• In Rome, the praetor Lucius Postumius Albinus celebrates a triumph after conquering the Vaccaei and Lusitani during his time as Roman commander in the province of Hispania Ulterior.

Greece

• One of Perseus' first acts on becoming king of Macedonia is to renew the treaty between Macedonia and Rome. In the mean time, Perseus builds up the Macedonian army and puts out feelers for creating an alliance with the Greek leagues, with his northern barbarian neighbours, and also with the Seleucid king Seleucus IV.