180 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:	183 BC 182 BC 181 BC – 180 BC – 179 BC 178 BC 177 BC

180 BC by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

180 BC in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	180 BC
Ab urbe condita	574
Armenian calendar	N/A
Assyrian calendar	4571
Bahá'í calendar	-2023–-2022
Bengali calendar	-772
Berber calendar	771
English Regnal year	N/A
Buddhist calendar	365
Burmese calendar	-817
Byzantine calendar	5329–5330
Chinese calendar	庚申年 (2457/2517) — to — 辛酉年 (2458/2518)
Coptic calendar	-463–-462
Ethiopian calendar	-187–-186
Hebrew calendar	3581–3582
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	-123–-122
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	2922–2923
Holocene calendar	9821
Iranian calendar	801 BP – 800 BP
Islamic calendar	826 BH – 825 BH
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar	2154
Minguo calendar	2091 before ROC 民前2091年
Thai solar calendar	364

Year 180 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Luscus and Piso/Flaccus (or, less frequently, year 574 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 180 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

Greece

• After three years of intriguing against his younger brother Demetrius, including accusing him of coveting the succession to the Macedonian throne and being allied to Rome, Perseus persuades his father King Philip V of Macedon to have Demetrius executed.

Roman Republic

• Rome completes its subjugation of all of Italy with the defeat of the Ligurians in a battle near modern Genoa. Rome deports 40,000 Ligurians to other areas of the Republic.
• Lucca becomes a Roman colony.

Egypt

• Ptolemy VI Philometor, aged 6, rules as co-regent with his mother, Cleopatra I, who, although a daughter of a Seleucid king, does not take King Seleucus IV's side and remains on friendly terms with Rome.
• Following the death of Aristophanes of Byzantium, Aristarchus of Samothrace becomes librarian at Alexandria.

Bactria

• Demetrius I starts his invasion of present-day Pakistan, following the earlier destruction of the Mauryan dynasty by general Pusyamitra Sunga.
• Apollodotus I, a general with Demetrius I of Bactria, becomes king of the western and southern parts of the Indo-Greek kingdom, from Taxila in Punjab to the areas of Sindh and possibly Gujarat. He maintains his allegiance to Demetrius I.

China

• Emperor Wen of the Han dynasty ascends to the Chinese throne after quelling the clans of Empress Dowager Lü.

Births

• Apollodorus of Athens, Greek scholar and grammarian (d. c. 120 BC)
• Viriathus, Lusitanian chieftain and general (d. 139 BC)

Deaths

• Lucius Valerius Flaccus, Roman statesman, consul in 195 BC, censor in 183 BC and colleague of Cato the Elder
• Aristophanes of Byzantium, Greek scholar, critic and grammarian, particularly renowned for his work in Homeric scholarship, but also for work on other classical authors such as Pindar and Hesiod. After early studies under leading scholars in Alexandria, he has been chief librarian since about 195 BC (b. 257 BC)
• Empress Dowager Lü, de facto ruler of the Chinese Han dynasty and wife of Emperor Gao
• Liu Hong, fourth emperor of the Chinese Han Dynasty