147 BC

Millennium:	1st millennium BC
Centuries:	3rd century BC – 2nd century BC – 1st century BC
Decades:	170s BC  160s BC  150s BC  – 140s BC –  130s BC  120s BC  110s BC
Years:	150 BC 149 BC 148 BC – 147 BC – 146 BC 145 BC 144 BC

147 BC in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	147 BC CXLVI BC
Ab urbe condita	607
Ancient Egypt era	XXXIII dynasty, 177
- Pharaoh	Ptolemy VI Philometor, 34
Ancient Greek era	158th Olympiad, year 2
Assyrian calendar	4604
Bengali calendar	−739
Berber calendar	804
Buddhist calendar	398
Burmese calendar	−784
Byzantine calendar	5362–5363
Chinese calendar	癸巳年 (Water Snake) 2550 or 2490     — to — 甲午年 (Wood Horse) 2551 or 2491
Coptic calendar	−430 – −429
Discordian calendar	1020
Ethiopian calendar	−154 – −153
Hebrew calendar	3614–3615
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	−90 – −89
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	2955–2956
Holocene calendar	9854
Iranian calendar	768 BP – 767 BP
Islamic calendar	792 BH – 791 BH
Julian calendar	N/A
Korean calendar	2187
Minguo calendar	2058 before ROC 民前2058年
Seleucid era	165/166 AG
Thai solar calendar	396–397

Year 147 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Aemilianus and Drusus (or, less frequently, year 607 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 147 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

By place

Ireland

• Corlea Trackway completed.

Roman Republic

• Scipio Aemilianus takes command in the Battle of Carthage. He built a mole across the gulf into the harbour, the Carthaginians dug a canal from their inner harbour basin to the coast and put to sea with a full fleet, but they are defeated in a naval engagement.
• Carthage recalled from exile an able general, named Hasdrubal, who organized their solid defences. Against the 45-foot (13.7 m) city walls, the Romans made slow progress.
• In Lusitania, Hispania, the Celtic king Viriathus, rallies Lusitanian resistance to Rome.

Syria

• Demetrius II of Syria returns to Syria (approximate date).
• Jonathan Maccabaeus conquers Joppa.

Greece

• Macedonia becomes a part of the Roman empire.

Births

• Lokaksema, a Buddhist monk from Gandhara (modern Pakistan/Afghanistan), Yuezhi in ethnicity, the first to translate Mahayana scriptures into the Chinese language during the Han Dynasty

Deaths

• Empress Bo