185 BC

Millennium:	1st millennium BC
Centuries:	3rd century BC – 2nd century BC – 1st century BC
Decades:	210s BC  200s BC  190s BC  – 180s BC –  170s BC  160s BC  150s BC
Years:	188 BC 187 BC 186 BC – 185 BC – 184 BC 183 BC 182 BC

185 BC by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

Year 185 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar.

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

• The civil war between the northern and southern areas of Egypt ends with the arrest of Ankmachis by the Ptolemaic general Conanus.

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)