197 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:	200 BC 199 BC 198 BC – 197 BC – 196 BC 195 BC 194 BC

197 BC by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

197 BC in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	197 BC
Ab urbe condita	557
Armenian calendar	N/A
Assyrian calendar	4554
Bahá'í calendar	-2040–-2039
Bengali calendar	-789
Berber calendar	754
English Regnal year	N/A
Buddhist calendar	348
Burmese calendar	-834
Byzantine calendar	5312–5313
Chinese calendar	癸卯年 (2440/2500) — to — 甲辰年 (2441/2501)
Coptic calendar	-480–-479
Ethiopian calendar	-204–-203
Hebrew calendar	3564–3565
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	-140–-139
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	2905–2906
Holocene calendar	9804
Iranian calendar	818 BP – 817 BP
Islamic calendar	843 BH – 842 BH
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar	2137
Minguo calendar	2108 before ROC 民前2108年
Thai solar calendar	347

Year 197 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Cethegus and Rufus (or, less frequently, year 557 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 197 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

Asia Minor

• Eumenes II becomes King of Pergamum following the death of his father Attalus I Soter.
• Antiochus III occupies parts of the kingdom of Pergamum and a number of Greek cities in Anatolia.

Egypt

• The Egyptian King, Ptolemy V, fights rebels in the Nile Delta, exhibiting great cruelty toward those of their leaders who capitulate.

Greece

• The Spartan ruler, Nabis, acquires the important city of Argos from Philip V of Macedon, as the price of his alliance with the Macedonians. Nabis then defects to the Romans in the expectation of being able to hold on to his conquest.
• The Battle of Cynoscephalae in Thessaly gives a Roman army under pro-consul Titus Quinctius Flamininus a decisive victory over Philip V of Macedon. In the Treaty of Tempe, the terms of the peace proposed by the Roman general and adopted by the Roman Senate specify that Philip V can retain his throne and control of Macedonia, but he has to abandon all the Greek cities he has conquered. Philip also has to provide to the Romans 1,000 talents as indemnity, surrender most of his fleet and provide hostages, including his younger son, Demetrius, who are to be held in Rome. The Aetolians propose that Philip V be ejected from his throne but Flamininus opposes this.

Hispania

• Hispania is divided into Hispania Ulterior and Hispania Citerior.

Deaths

• 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)