General
Population: Between 190 and 230 million*
- Disease: Smallpox spreads from Rome through Europe to Persia until 150 BC (164 BC)
- Entertainment: Terence presents performance of "Andria" (167 BC)
- Mathematics: Hipparchus of Nicaea invents Trigonometry (160 BC)
- Warfare: End of Third Macedonian War between Rome and Macedonia with 20,000 dead (168-167 BC)
- Deaths: Antiochus IV Epiphanes of the Seleucid Empire (164-163 BC),
Eleazar Maccabeus crushed by war elephant (162 BC),
Judas Maccabee (Maccabaeus) (160 BC)
Americas
- General: About this time Zeniff confers kingdom on son King Noah (160 BC)
Europe
- General: Third Macedonian War between Rome and Macedonia - Perseus defeated by Romans
- Eastern Europe: Start of the Commagene (Armenian) Empire to 72 AD (163 BC)
- Greece: Battle of Pydna results in macedonians sold as slaves in Rome (168 BC)
End of Antigonid Kingdom of Greece (168 BC)
End of ancient Epirus (167 BC)
- Roman Empire: Start of Roman world dominion as Rome defeats Greece in Third Macedonian War (168 BC)
Middle East
- Judaea: Antiochus IV begins persecution of Jews (167 BC)
Maccabee revolt started by Zeus worship in temple (167 BC)
Eleazar Maccabeus crushed when killing a war elephant by stabbing it underneath and it fell on him (160 BC)
Jewish political independence begins (161 BC)
Judas Maccabee killed in battle against Syrians - Jonathan Maccabaeus leads until 143 (160 BC)
- Persia: End of Antiochus IV Epiphanes of the Seleucid Empire (164-163 BC)