187 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:	190 BC 189 BC 188 BC – 187 BC – 186 BC 185 BC 184 BC

187 BC in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	187 BC CLXXXVI BC
Ab urbe condita	567
Ancient Egypt era	XXXIII dynasty, 137
- Pharaoh	Ptolemy V Epiphanes, 17
Ancient Greek era	148th Olympiad, year 2
Assyrian calendar	4564
Bengali calendar	−779
Berber calendar	764
Buddhist calendar	358
Burmese calendar	−824
Byzantine calendar	5322–5323
Chinese calendar	癸丑年 (Water Ox) 2510 or 2450     — to — 甲寅年 (Wood Tiger) 2511 or 2451
Coptic calendar	−470 – −469
Discordian calendar	980
Ethiopian calendar	−194 – −193
Hebrew calendar	3574–3575
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	−130 – −129
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	2915–2916
Holocene calendar	9814
Iranian calendar	808 BP – 807 BP
Islamic calendar	833 BH – 832 BH
Julian calendar	N/A
Korean calendar	2147
Minguo calendar	2098 before ROC 民前2098年
Seleucid era	125/126 AG
Thai solar calendar	356–357

Year 187 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Lepidus and Flaminius (or, less frequently, year 567 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 187 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

Seleucid Empire

• The Seleucid king, Antiochus III, mounts a fresh expedition to the east of his kingdom in Luristan, where he is killed during an attempt to collect tribute from a temple at Elymais, Persia. He is succeeded by his son, Seleucus IV, who inherits an empire consisting of Syria (including Cilicia and Palestine), Mesopotamia, Babylonia, Media and Persia.

Roman Republic

• Tiberius Gracchus Major is elected tribune of the plebs, in which capacity he is recorded as having saved Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus Major from prosecution by interposing his veto. Tiberius is no friend nor political ally of Scipio's, but feels that the general's services to Rome merit his release from the threat of trial like any common criminal. Supposedly, in gratitude for this action, Scipio betrothes his youngest daughter, Cornelia, to him.
• The construction of the Via Aemilia, a trunk road in the north Italian plains, running from Ariminum (Rimini), on the Adriatic coast, to Placentia (Piacenza) on the river Padus (Po), is completed.

Egypt

• Queen Cleopatra I is appointed Vizier (Chief Minister) to the King Ptolemy V Epiphanes.

Deaths

• Antiochus III the Great, Seleucid king of the Hellenistic Syrian Empire from 223 BC, who has rebuilt the empire in the East but failed in his attempt to challenge Roman ascendancy in Greece and Anatolia (b. c. 241 BC)