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This article concerns the period 199 BC – 190 BC.
Births
195 BC
- Mithridates I (or Mithradates), "Great King" of Parthia from about 171 BC who turned Parthia into a major political power and expanded the empire westward into Mesopotamia (d. 138 BC)
- Terence or Publius Terentius Afer, Roman comic playwright (approximate date) (d. 159 BC)[1]
190 BC
- Cornelia, second daughter of Scipio Africanus. She will be considered by Roman society to be the perfect example of a virtuous Roman woman (d. 100 BC)
- Hipparchus, Greek astronomer, geographer, and mathematician (d. c. 120 BC)
Deaths
197 BC
- Attalus I Soter, ruler of Pergamum from 241 BC, who has taken on the title of king after about 230 BC. Through his military and diplomatic skills, he has created a powerful kingdom in Anatolia (b. 269 BC)
- Liu Taigong, Chinese emperor of the Han dynasty
196 BC
- Han Xin, Chinese general during the Chu–Han Contention
- Marcus Cornelius Cethegus, Roman consul and censor
- Peng Yue, Chinese general of the Western Han dynasty
- Xin, Chinese king during the Warring States period
195 BC
- June 1 – Gaozu of Han (or Gao), first emperor of the Chinese Han dynasty, who has ruled since 202 BC (b. 256 or 247 BC)
194 BC
- Eratosthenes, Greek mathematician, geographer and astronomer (b. 276 BC)
- Concubine Qi, also known as Lady Qi or Consort Qi, favoured concubine of Han Gaozu (personal name Liu Bang), the first emperor of the Chinese Han dynasty
193 BC
- Xiao He, prime minister of the early Han dynasty in China who has been a key figure in Liu Bang's rise to power after the fall of the Qin dynasty
192 BC
- Nabis, tyrant and last independent ruler (from 207 BC) of Sparta
- Xiang Bo, Chinese nobleman of the Chu State (Seven Kingdoms)
191 BC
- Arsaces II, King of Parthia, who had reigned from about 211 BC (murdered)
190 BC
- Apollonius of Perga, Greek mathematician, geometer and astronomer of the Alexandrian school, known by his contemporaries as "The Great Geometer", whose treatise "Conics" is one of the greatest scientific works from the ancient world (b. c. 262 BC)