-149
This page relates to the year -149 Calendrier Julien proleptic.
Events
Roman world
- With Rome, Consul At of Manius Manilius, Marcius Censorinus.
- Scipion Émilien is useful like military powerful orator in Africa.
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the powerful orator L. Calpurnius Piso Frugi makes pass a law creating of the permanent courts ( quaestiones perpetuae ) to judge the crimes of extortion of money of the magistrates in province ( of pecunis repetundis ). Senate decides that their jurys would be exclusively made up senators, which causes the reaction of the equestrian class, directly concerned in his community activity. Other permanent courts will be created thereafter: assassinations and poisonings ( of sicariis and veneficis ), aspires to ( of ambitu ), peculation ( of peculata ).
- Beginning of the Third Punic War (fine in -146).
- Rome requires that Carthage be destroyed and is rebuilt inside the grounds. The consuls L. Marcius Censorius and Mr. Manilius carry out the war until in -148. They put the seat in front of Carthage which resists savagely, while under the command of Hasdrubal, an army of 80 000 men concentrates inside, with the camp of Néphéris.
World hellenistic
- Andriscus, an adventurer who took the name of Philippe and says son of Persée, raises the Macedonia against Rome. It makes alliance with Carthage, beats the local forces which try to repress the movement and invades even the Thessalie. A Roman army under the orders of the praetor Q. Caecilius Metellus overcomes Andriscos and the fact captive with the second battle of Pydna (-148).
- Attale II of Pergame overcomes and détrône Prusias II, king of Bithynie, which it makes assassinate by his son Nicomède II Épiphane, itself threatened to be put at dead by his/her father. Then it subjects the Pamphylie where it founds Attaleia.
- Beginning of the reign of Nicomède II, king of Bithynie (fine in -127).
- Beginning of the reign of Tigrane Ier, king of Arménie (fine in -128).
- Début of the reign of Alexandre Ier Balled, king of Syria.
- the usurper Alexandre Balas détrône and kills the king of Syria Démétrios Ier Sôter while being made pass for the son of Antiochos IV. He marries with Ptolémaïs (Akko) the girl of Ptolémée VI Philometor, Cléopâtre Théa.
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Jonathan is named governor of Judaea.
Art & culture
- Invention with Pergame of the “ pergamena ” (Parchment) to replace the papyrus whose king of Egypt had prohibited export.
Births
Death
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