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Events

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Roman Republic

Anatolia

Births

Deaths

Events

By place

Roman Republic

★ The rapid spread of the Bacchanalia cult throughout the Roman Republic, which, it is claimed, indulges in all kinds of crimes and political conspiracies at its nocturnal meetings, leads to the Roman Senate issuing a decree, the ''Senatus consultum de Bacchanalibus'', by which the Bacchanalia are prohibited throughout all Italy except in certain special cases which must be approved specifically by the Senate.

Anatolia

★ Eumenes II of Pergamum defeats Prusias I of Bithynia.

Births

★ Ptolemy VI Philometor, king of Egypt, who will reign from 180 BC (d. 145 BC)

Deaths

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