156 BC

Millennium:	1st millennium BC
Centuries:	3rd century BC – 2nd century BC – 1st century BC
Decades:	180s BC  170s BC  160s BC  – 150s BC –  140s BC  130s BC  120s BC
Years:	159 BC 158 BC 157 BC – 156 BC – 155 BC 154 BC 153 BC

156 BC in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	156 BC CLV BC
Ab urbe condita	598
Ancient Egypt era	XXXIII dynasty, 168
- Pharaoh	Ptolemy VI Philometor, 25
Ancient Greek era	156th Olympiad (victor)¹
Assyrian calendar	4595
Bengali calendar	−748
Berber calendar	795
Buddhist calendar	389
Burmese calendar	−793
Byzantine calendar	5353–5354
Chinese calendar	甲申年 (Wood Monkey) 2541 or 2481     — to — 乙酉年 (Wood Rooster) 2542 or 2482
Coptic calendar	−439 – −438
Discordian calendar	1011
Ethiopian calendar	−163 – −162
Hebrew calendar	3605–3606
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	−99 – −98
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	2946–2947
Holocene calendar	9845
Iranian calendar	777 BP – 776 BP
Islamic calendar	801 BH – 800 BH
Julian calendar	N/A
Korean calendar	2178
Minguo calendar	2067 before ROC 民前2067年
Seleucid era	156/157 AG
Thai solar calendar	387–388

Year 156 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Lupus and Figulus (or, less frequently, year 598 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 156 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

Roman Republic

• The first Dalmatian war begins.

Births

• Wu of Han, seventh emperor of the Chinese Han Dynasty, who will rule from 141 BC; during his reign, there will be a vast territorial expansion and he will organise a strong and centralized Chinese Confucian state (d. 87 BC)