185 BC
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Year 185 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar.
Events
By place
Roman Republic
- The Roman general Scipio Africanus and his brother Lucius are accused by Cato the Elder of receiving bribes from the late Seleucid king Antiochus III.
Egypt
India
- Pusyamitra Sunga kills the Mauryan emperor Brhadrata. He forms the Sunga dynasty.
Births
- Publius Cornelius Scipio Aemilianus, leading general and politician of the Roman Republic. As consul he will be the commander of the final siege and destruction of Carthage and will be the leader of the senators opposed to the Gracchi (d. 129 BC)
- Panaetius of Rhodes, Greek philosopher (d. 110 BC)
Deaths
- Brhadrata, Indian emperor, last ruler of the Indian Mauryan dynasty (from 197 BC)