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147 BC in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	147 BC CXLVII BC
Ab urbe condita	607
Ancient Egypt era	XXXIII dynasty, 177
- Pharaoh	Ptolemy VI Philometor, 34
Ancient Greek Olympiad (summer)	158th Olympiad, year 2
Assyrian calendar	4604
Balinese saka calendar	N/A
Bengali calendar	−740 – −739
Berber calendar	804
Buddhist calendar	398
Burmese calendar	−784
Byzantine calendar	5362–5363
Chinese calendar	癸巳年 (Water Snake) 2551 or 2344     — to — 甲午年 (Wood Horse) 2552 or 2345
Coptic calendar	−430 – −429
Discordian calendar	1020
Ethiopian calendar	−154 – −153
Hebrew calendar	3614–3615
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	−90 – −89
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	2954–2955
Holocene calendar	9854
Iranian calendar	768 BP – 767 BP
Islamic calendar	792 BH – 791 BH
Javanese calendar	N/A
Julian calendar	N/A
Korean calendar	2187
Minguo calendar	2058 before ROC 民前2058年
Nanakshahi calendar	−1614
Seleucid era	165/166 AG
Thai solar calendar	396–397
Tibetan calendar	ཆུ་མོ་སྦྲུལ་ལོ་ (female Water-Snake) −20 or −401 or −1173     — to — ཤིང་ཕོ་རྟ་ལོ་ (male Wood-Horse) −19 or −400 or −1172

Year 147 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Aemilianus and Drusus (or, less frequently, year 607 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 147 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.

• Corlea Trackway completed.

• Despite being the five years below the minimum age required, Scipio Aemilianus is elected Consul under popular pressure.^[1]
• In Lusitania, Hispania, the Celtic king Viriathus, rallies Lusitanian resistance to Rome.

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

• Bo, Chinese empress of the Western Han Dynasty