Editing 183 BC

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Year '''183 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 Marcellus and Labeo''' (or, less frequently, '''year 571 ''[[Ab urbe condita]]'''''). The denomination 183 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 ===

==== Roman Republic ====
* [[Roman colony|Roman colonies]] are established at [[Mutina]] (later [[Modena]]), [[Pisa]] and [[Parma]] in northern and central [[Italy]].
* The [[Roman Republic|Roman]] general [[Scipio Africanus]] dies at [[Liternum]] in [[Campania]].
* The Roman statesman [[Titus Quinctius Flamininus]] is sent to the court of [[Prusias I]], king of [[Bithynia]], to demand the surrender of the former [[Carthage|Carthaginian]] statesman and general [[Hannibal]]. When Hannibal finds out that Prusias is about to agree to the Roman demands and thus betray him, he poisons himself in the village of [[Libyssa]] in Bithynia.

==== Greece ====
* The town of [[Messene]] rebels against the [[Achaean League]]. When the Achaean League's general, [[Philopoemen]], intervenes to try to control the rebellion, he is captured during a skirmish and imprisoned. He is then given poison to take so that he can die honourably.
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== Births ==
* [[Publius Cornelius Scipio Nasica Serapio]], consul in [[138 BC]], who will have a prominent part in the murder of [[Tiberius Gracchus]] by leading a group of conservative senators and other knights in opposition to Gracchus and his supporters (d. [[132 BC]]).

== Deaths ==
* [[Scipio Africanus|Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus Major]], [[Roman Republic|Roman]] statesman and general, famous for his victory over the [[Carthage|Carthaginian]] leader [[Hannibal]] in the [[Battle of Zama]] in [[202 BC]], which ended the [[Second Punic War]] and gave him the surname Africanus (b. [[236 BC]])
* [[Philopoemen]], Greek general and statesman, [[strategos]] of the [[Achaean League]] on eight occasions and a major figure in the demise of [[Sparta]] as a Greek power (b. [[253 BC]])
* [[Hannibal]], [[Carthage|Carthaginian]] statesman, military commander and tactician, one of history's great military leaders, who has commanded the Carthaginian forces against [[Roman Republic|Rome]] in the [[Second Punic War]] (b. [[247 BC]])

== References ==
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