148 BC was a year in the second century BC.

Events

By place

Ireland

• Corlea Trackway built in County Longford

Rome

• With the defeat of Andriscus in the Battle of Pydna by Quintus Caecilius Metellus, Macedon is reorganized as a Roman province by 146 BC.
• Construction of the Via Postumia, linking Aquileia and Genua.
• Publius Cornelius Scipio Aemilianus divides Numidia between the three sons of the recently-deceased Masinissa.

Births

Deaths

• Masinissa, king of Numidia (b. c. 238 BC)
• Yuan Ang, Chinese statesman of the Han Dynasty