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186 BCE

Eumenes II of Pergamum defeats Prusias I of Bithynia. The first burial at the famous archaeological site of Mawangdui is made during the Western Han dynasty of China. The rapid spread of the Bacchanalia cult throughout the Roman Republic, which, it is claimed, indulges in all kinds of crimes and political conspiracies at its nocturnal meetings, leads to the Roman Senate issuing a decree, the Senatus consultum de Bacchanalibus, by which the Bacchanalia are prohibited throughout all Italy except in certain special cases which must be approved specifically by the Senate.

Conflict & Security

  • Eumenes II of Pergamum defeats Prusias I of Bithynia.source

Technology & Infrastructure

  • The first burial at the famous archaeological site of Mawangdui is made during the Western Han dynasty of China.source

Health & Medicine

  • The rapid spread of the Bacchanalia cult throughout the Roman Republic, which, it is claimed, indulges in all kinds of crimes and political conspiracies at its nocturnal meetings, leads to the Roman Senate issuing a decree, the Senatus consultum de Bacchanalibus, by which the Bacchanalia are prohibited throughout all Italy except in certain special cases which must be approved specifically by the Senate.source

Births

  • Ptolemy VI Philometor, king of Egypt, who will reign from 180 BC (d. 145 BC)source

Deaths

  • Li Cang, Marquis of Dai, buried in one of the Mawangduisource