Millennium: | 1st millennium BC |
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Centuries: | |
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Years: |
Gregorian calendar | 159 BC CLVIII BC |
Ab urbe condita | 595 |
Ancient Egypt era | XXXIII dynasty, 165 |
- Pharaoh | Ptolemy VI Philometor, 22 |
Ancient Greek era | 155th Olympiad, year 2 |
Assyrian calendar | 4592 |
Bengali calendar | −751 |
Berber calendar | 792 |
Buddhist calendar | 386 |
Burmese calendar | −796 |
Byzantine calendar | 5350–5351 |
Chinese calendar |
辛巳年 (Metal Snake) 2538 or 2478 — to — 壬午年 (Water Horse) 2539 or 2479 |
Coptic calendar | −442 – −441 |
Discordian calendar | 1008 |
Ethiopian calendar | −166 – −165 |
Hebrew calendar | 3602–3603 |
Hindu calendars | |
- Vikram Samvat | −102 – −101 |
- Shaka Samvat | N/A |
- Kali Yuga | 2942–2943 |
Holocene calendar | 9842 |
Iranian calendar | 780 BP – 779 BP |
Islamic calendar | 804 BH – 803 BH |
Javanese calendar | N/A |
Julian calendar | N/A |
Korean calendar | 2175 |
Minguo calendar | 2070 before ROC 民前2070年 |
Nanakshahi calendar | −1626 |
Seleucid era | 153/154 AG |
Thai solar calendar | 384–385 |
Year 159 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Dolabella and Nobilior (or, less frequently, year 595 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 159 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.