148 BC
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In the year 148 bce
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During the final siege of Carthage (Tunisia) by the Romans, the women of Carthage sacrifice their long hair to make strings for their soldiers' bows. It is not much use because hair creeps badly when stressed and does not store strain energy over significant periods of time. See also 814 bce Archaeology.
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148 BC
| 148 BC by topic | |
| Politics | |
| State leaders – Sovereign states | |
| Birth and death categories | |
| Births – Deaths | |
| Establishments and disestablishments categories | |
| Establishments – Disestablishments | |
| Gregorian calendar | 148 BC |
| Ab urbe condita | 606 |
| Armenian calendar | N/A |
| Assyrian calendar | 4603 |
| Bahá'í calendar | -1991 – -1990 |
| Bengali calendar | -740 |
| Berber calendar | 803 |
| English Regnal year | N/A |
| Buddhist calendar | 397 |
| Burmese calendar | -785 |
| Byzantine calendar | 5361 – 5362 |
| Chinese calendar | 壬辰年 (2489/2549) — to —
癸巳年(2490/2550) |
| Coptic calendar | -431 – -430 |
| Ethiopian calendar | -155 – -154 |
| Hebrew calendar | 3613 – 3614 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Bikram Samwat | -91 – -90 |
| - Shaka Samvat | N/A |
| - Kali Yuga | 2954 – 2955 |
| Holocene calendar | 9853 |
| Iranian calendar | 769 BP – 768 BP |
| Islamic calendar | 793 BH – 792 BH |
| Japanese calendar | |
| Korean calendar | 2186 |
| Minguo calendar | 2059 before ROC 民前2059年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 396 |
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Year 148 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Magnus and Caesoninus (or, less frequently, year 606 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 148 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
Ireland
- Corlea Trackway built in County Longford
Roman Republic
- With the defeat of Andriscus in the Battle of Pydna by Quintus Caecilius Metellus Macedonicus, Macedon is reorganized as a Roman province by 146 BC.
- Construction of the Via Postumia, linking Aquileia and Genua.
- Publius Cornelius Scipio Aemilianus divides Numidia among the three sons of the recently deceased Masinissa.
Births
Deaths
- Masinissa, king of Numidia (b. c. 238 BC)
- Yuan Ang, Chinese statesman of the Han Dynasty
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