147 BC

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147 BC was a year in the second century BC.

Events

By place

Rome

• Scipio Aemilianus takes command in the Battle of Carthage.

Syria

• Demetrius II of Syria returns to Syria. (approximate)
• Jonathan Maccabaeus conquers Joppa.

Births

• Lokaksema, a Buddhist monk from Gandhara (modern Pakistan/Afghanistan), Yuezhi in ethnicity, the first to translate Mahayana scriptures into the Chinese language during the Han Dynasty.

Deaths

• Empress Bo

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