143 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:	146 BC · 145 BC · 144 BC · 143 BC · 142 BC · 141 BC · 140 BC

143 BC in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	143 BC CXLII BC
Ab urbe condita	611
Ancient Egypt era	XXXIII dynasty, 181
- Pharaoh	Ptolemy VIII Physcon, 3
Ancient Greek era	159th Olympiad, year 2
Assyrian calendar	4608
Bengali calendar	−735
Berber calendar	808
Buddhist calendar	402
Burmese calendar	−780
Byzantine calendar	5366–5367
Chinese calendar	丁酉年 (Fire Rooster) 2554 or 2494     — to — 戊戌年 (Earth Dog) 2555 or 2495
Coptic calendar	−426 – −425
Discordian calendar	1024
Ethiopian calendar	−150 – −149
Hebrew calendar	3618–3619
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	−86 – −85
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	2958–2959
Holocene calendar	9858
Iranian calendar	764 BP – 763 BP
Islamic calendar	787 BH – 786 BH
Javanese calendar	N/A
Julian calendar	N/A
Korean calendar	2191
Minguo calendar	2054 before ROC 民前2054年
Nanakshahi calendar	−1610
Seleucid era	169/170 AG
Thai solar calendar	400–401

Year 143 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Pulcher and Macedonicus (or, less frequently, year 611 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 143 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 Celtiberian War ends when Quintus Caecilius Metellus Macedonicus crushes the rebels.

Births

• Marcus Antonius Orator, Roman politician

Deaths

• Jonathan Maccabaeus (slain by Diodotus Tryphon)
• Zhou Yafu, general of Han Dynasty

References