185 BC

Year 185 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. 

 Events 
 By place 
 Roman Republic 
 The Roman general Scipio Africanus and his brother Lucius are accused by Cato the Elder of receiving bribes from the late Seleucid king Antiochus III. 

 Egypt 
 The civil war between the northern and southern areas of Egypt ends with the arrest of Ankmachis by the Ptolemaic general Conanus.

 India 
 Pusyamitra Sunga kills the Mauryan emperor Brhadrata.  He forms the Sunga dynasty.

 Births 

 Publius Cornelius Scipio Aemilianus, leading general and politician of the Roman Republic. As consul he will be the commander of the final siege and destruction of Carthage and will be the leader of the senators opposed to the Gracchi (d. 129 BC)
 Panaetius of Rhodes, Greek philosopher (d. 110 BC)

 Deaths 

 Brhadrata, Indian emperor, last ruler of the Indian Mauryan dynasty (from 197 BC)

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