169 BC

Decades: 210s BC 200s BC 190s BC 180s BC 170s BC - 160s BC - 150s BC140s BC 130s BC 120s BC 110s BC

Years: 174 BC 173 BC 172 BC 171 BC 170 BC - 169 BC - 168 BC 167 BC 166 BC 165 BC 164 BC

• Start of the Third Macedonian War, between the Roman empire under Marcius Philippus and the Antigonid dynasty under Perseus.
• Antiochus IV Epiphanes desecrates the Temple in Jerusalem.

Birth

Deaths

• Ennius, Roman author.