199 BC

Millennium:	1st millennium BC
Centuries:	3rd century BC – 2nd century BC – 1st century BC
Decades:	220s BC  210s BC  200s BC  – 190s BC –  180s BC  170s BC  160s BC
Years:	202 BC 201 BC 200 BC – 199 BC – 198 BC 197 BC 196 BC

199 BC in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	199 BC CXCVIII BC
Ab urbe condita	555
Ancient Egypt era	XXXIII dynasty, 125
- Pharaoh	Ptolemy V Epiphanes, 5
Ancient Greek era	145th Olympiad, year 2
Assyrian calendar	4552
Bengali calendar	−791
Berber calendar	752
Buddhist calendar	346
Burmese calendar	−836
Byzantine calendar	5310–5311
Chinese calendar	辛丑年 (Metal Ox) 2498 or 2438     — to — 壬寅年 (Water Tiger) 2499 or 2439
Coptic calendar	−482 – −481
Discordian calendar	968
Ethiopian calendar	−206 – −205
Hebrew calendar	3562–3563
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	−142 – −141
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	2903–2904
Holocene calendar	9802
Iranian calendar	820 BP – 819 BP
Islamic calendar	845 BH – 844 BH
Julian calendar	N/A
Korean calendar	2135
Minguo calendar	2110 before ROC 民前2110年
Seleucid era	113/114 AG
Thai solar calendar	344–345

Year 199 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Lentulus and Tappulus (or, less frequently, year 555 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 199 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 Roman general Gnaeus Baebius Tamphilus attacks the Insubres in Gaul, but loses over 6,700 soldiers in the process.
• Scipio Africanus becomes censor and princeps Senatus (the titular head of the Roman Senate).
• The Roman law, Lex Porcia, is proposed by the tribune P. Porcius Laeca to give Roman citizens in Italy and provinces the right of appeal in capital cases.