171 BC

Calendar year

Millennium:	1st millennium BC
Centuries:	3rd century BC 2nd century BC 1st century BC
Decades:	190s BC 180s BC 170s BC 160s BC 150s BC
Years:	174 BC 173 BC 172 BC 171 BC 170 BC 169 BC 168 BC
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171 BC in various calendars

Gregorian calendar 171 BC
CLXXI BC

Ab urbe condita 583

Ancient Egypt era XXXIII dynasty, 153

- Pharaoh Ptolemy VI Philometor, 10

Ancient Greek era 152nd Olympiad, year 2

Assyrian calendar 4580

Balinese saka calendar N/A

Bengali calendar −764 – −763

Berber calendar 780

Buddhist calendar 374

Burmese calendar −808

Byzantine calendar 5338–5339

Chinese calendar 己巳年 (Earth Snake)
2527 or 2320
— to —
庚午年 (Metal Horse)
2528 or 2321

Coptic calendar −454 – −453

Discordian calendar 996

Ethiopian calendar −178 – −177

Hebrew calendar 3590–3591

Hindu calendars

- Vikram Samvat −114 – −113

- Shaka Samvat N/A

- Kali Yuga 2930–2931

Holocene calendar 9830

Iranian calendar 792 BP – 791 BP

Islamic calendar 816 BH – 815 BH

Javanese calendar N/A

Julian calendar N/A

Korean calendar 2163

Minguo calendar 2082 before ROC
民前2082年

Nanakshahi calendar −1638

Seleucid era 141/142 AG

Thai solar calendar 372–373

Tibetan calendar 阴土蛇年
(female Earth-Snake)
−44 or −425 or −1197
— to —
阳金马年
(male Iron-Horse)
−43 or −424 or −1196

Year 171 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Crassus and Longinus (or, less frequently, year 583 Ab urbe condita ). The denomination 171 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

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By place

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Greece

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Epirus joins Macedonia in the latter's fight against Rome. However, the leagues of southern Greece remain neutral.
Thanks to the efforts of Eumenes II of Pergamum while in Rome, the Romans declare war on Macedonia and send troops to Thessaly, thus beginning the Third Macedonian War. In the resulting Battle of Callicinus the Macedonians, led by their king, Perseus, are victorious over a Roman force led by consul Publius Licinius Crassus.
Boiotian League dissolved by the Romans.

Roman Republic

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The first Roman colony outside Italy is founded at Carteia in southern Hispania after Iberian-born descendants of Roman soldiers appear before the Roman Senate to request a town to live in and are given Carteia, which is named Colonia Libertinorum Carteia.
Lucius Postumius Albinus is sent by Rome as an ambassador to King Masinissa of Numidia, and to the Carthaginians in order to raise troops for the war against Perseus of Macedonia.