Editing 160 BC

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Year '''160 BC''' was a year of the [[Roman calendar|pre-Julian Roman calendar]]. At the time it was known as the '''Year of the Consulship of Gallus and Cethegus''' (or, less frequently, '''year 594 ''[[Ab urbe condita]]''''') and the '''Fourth Year of Houyuan'''. The denomination 160 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 ==
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=== By place ===

==== Seleucid Empire ====
* The [[Seleucid]] king, [[Demetrius I Soter]] defeats a Jewish rebellion at [[Palestine (region)|Palestine]].<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Demetrius-I-Soter | access-date=February 26, 2024 | title=Demetrius I Soter | series=Encyclopædia Britannica}}</ref>
* In response to the [[Jew]]ish high priest, [[Alcimus]]', request for assistance, the Seleucid general Bacchides leads an army into [[Judea]] with the intent of reconquering this now independent kingdom. Bacchides rapidly marches through Judea after carrying out a massacre of the [[Assideans]] in [[Galilee]]. He quickly makes for [[Jerusalem]], besieging the city and trapping [[Judas Maccabeus]], the spiritual and military leader of the [[Maccabees]], inside. However, Judas and many of his supporters manage to escape the siege.
* Judas Maccabeus and many of his supporters regroup to face the Seleucid forces in the [[Battle of Elasa]] (near modern day [[Ramallah]]). Greatly outnumbered, the Maccabees are defeated and Judas Maccabeus is killed during the battle.
* Judas Maccabeus is succeeded as army commander and leader of the [[Maccabees]] by his younger brother, [[Jonathan Maccabeus]].
* Demetrius I defeats and kills the rebel general [[Timarchus]] and is recognized as king of the Seleucid empire by the [[Roman Senate]]. Demetrius acquires his surname of Soter (meaning ''Saviour'') from the [[Babylonia]]ns, for delivering them from the tyranny of Timarchus. The Seleucid empire is temporarily united again.
* The [[Parthia]]n King, [[Mithradates I]], seizes [[Medes|Media]] from the [[Seleucid]]s following the death of Timarchus.

==== Bactria ====
* The king of [[Bactria]], [[Eucratides I]], is considered to have killed [[Apollodotus I]], an Indo-Greek king who rules the western and southern parts of the Indo-Greek kingdom, when he invades the western territories of that kingdom.

==== China ====
* A ''Painted banner'', from the tomb of the wife of the [[Marquis of Dai]], of the [[Han dynasty]], in [[Mawangdui]], [[Changsha]], [[Hunan]], is made (approximate date). It is nowadays preserved at the Historical museum in [[Beijing]].

==== Armenia ====
* [[Artavasdes I of Armenia|Artavasdes I]] succeeds his father [[Artaxias I]] as king of [[Armenia]].

==== Roman Republic ====
* The [[Roman Republic|Roman]] playwright [[Terence]]'s play ''[[Adelphoe]]'' (The Brothers) is first performed<ref>{{cite web | title=Terence | first=W. Geoffrey | last=Arnott | url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Terence | access-date=February 24, 2024 | series=Encyclopædia Britannica}}</ref> at the funeral of the Roman general, [[Lucius Aemilius Paullus Macedonicus]].
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== Births ==
* [[Jugurtha]], King of [[Numidia]] (d. [[104 BC]])<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Jugurtha | access-date=February 27, 2024 | title=Jugurtha | series=Encyclopædia Britannica}}</ref>
* [[Theodosius of Bithynia]], Greek astronomer and mathematician who will write ''[[Theodosius' Spherics|Spherics]]'', a book on the geometry of the sphere (d. c. [[100 BC]]), later translated from Arabic back into Latin to help restore knowledge of Euclidean geometry to the West.
* [[Quintus Caecilius Metellus Numidicus]], Roman statesman and general

== Deaths ==
* [[Artaxias I]], king of [[Armenia]] who has ruled since [[190 BC]] and the founder of the [[Artaxiad dynasty]], whose members would rule the Kingdom of Armenia for nearly two centuries
* [[Apollodotus I]], Indo-Greek king who, since [[180 BC]], has ruled the western and southern parts of the Indo-Greek kingdom, from [[Taxila]] in [[Punjab, Pakistan|Punjab]] to the areas of [[Sindh]] and possibly [[Gujarat]]
* [[Gaius Laelius]], [[Roman Republic|Roman]] general and politician who was involved in Rome's victory during the [[Second Punic War]] between Rome and [[Carthage]] (approximate date)
* [[Judas Maccabeus]], third son of the [[Jew]]ish priest [[Mattathias]], who led the [[Maccabean]] revolt against the [[Seleucid Empire]] until his death
* [[Lucius Aemilius Paullus Macedonicus]], Roman [[consul]], politician and general whose victory over the Macedonians in the [[Battle of Pydna]] ended the [[Third Macedonian War]] (b. c. [[229 BC]])
* [[Timarchus]], [[Seleucid]] nobleman, possibly from [[Miletus]] in [[Anatolia]], appointed governor of [[Medes|Media]] in western [[Iran]] by the Seleucid king [[Antiochus IV Epiphanes]] and who has rebelled against his successor, [[Demetrius I Soter]], until he is killed in a battle with Demetrius' forces

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