197 BC

Year 197 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Cethegus and Rufus (or, less frequently, year 557 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 197 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.

Millennium:	1st millennium BC
Centuries:	3rd century BC 2nd century BC 1st century BC
Decades:	210s BC 200s BC 190s BC 180s BC 170s BC
Years:	200 BC 199 BC 198 BC 197 BC 196 BC 195 BC 194 BC

197 BC in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	197 BC CXCVII BC
Ab urbe condita	557
Ancient Egypt era	XXXIII dynasty, 127
- Pharaoh	Ptolemy V Epiphanes, 7
Ancient Greek era	145th Olympiad, year 4
Assyrian calendar	4554
Balinese saka calendar	N/A
Bengali calendar	−789
Berber calendar	754
Buddhist calendar	348
Burmese calendar	−834
Byzantine calendar	5312–5313
Chinese calendar	癸卯年 (Water Rabbit) 2501 or 2294     — to — 甲辰年 (Wood Dragon) 2502 or 2295
Coptic calendar	−480 – −479
Discordian calendar	970
Ethiopian calendar	−204 – −203
Hebrew calendar	3564–3565
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	−140 – −139
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	2904–2905
Holocene calendar	9804
Iranian calendar	818 BP – 817 BP
Islamic calendar	843 BH – 842 BH
Javanese calendar	N/A
Julian calendar	N/A
Korean calendar	2137
Minguo calendar	2108 before ROC 民前2108年
Nanakshahi calendar	−1664
Seleucid era	115/116 AG
Thai solar calendar	346–347
Tibetan calendar	阴水兔年 (female Water-Rabbit) −70 or −451 or −1223     — to — 阳木龙年 (male Wood-Dragon) −69 or −450 or −1222

Events

By place

Asia Minor

• Eumenes II becomes King of Pergamum following the death of his father Attalus I Soter.
• Antiochus III occupies parts of the kingdom of Pergamum and a number of Greek cities in Anatolia.

Egypt

• The Egyptian King, Ptolemy V, fights rebels in the Nile Delta, exhibiting great cruelty toward those of their leaders who capitulate.

Greece

• The Spartan ruler, Nabis, acquires the important city of Argos from Philip V of Macedon, as the price of his alliance with the Macedonians. Nabis then defects to the Romans in the expectation of being able to hold on to his conquest.
• The Battle of Cynoscephalae in Thessaly gives a Roman army under proconsul Titus Quinctius Flamininus a decisive victory over Philip V of Macedon. In the Treaty of Tempe, the terms of the peace proposed by the Roman general and adopted by the Roman Senate specify that Philip V can retain his throne and control of Macedonia, but he has to abandon all the Greek cities he has conquered. Philip also has to provide to the Romans 1,000 talents as indemnity, surrender most of his fleet and provide hostages, including his younger son, Demetrius, who is to be held in Rome. The Aetolians propose that Philip V be ejected from his throne but Flamininus opposes this.
• The volcanic island of Hiera emerges from under the sea near Thera.

Hispania

• Hispania is divided into Hispania Ulterior and Hispania Citerior.
• The Iberian revolt breaks out in Citerior and Ulterior against Roman domination.

China

• Chen Xi begins a rebellion against the Han dynasty in the Dai region of the northern frontier.

Deaths

• 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