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The Big Bang happened 13.7 billion years ago. According to the big bang theory, the universe began by expanding from an infinitesimal volume with extremely high density and temperature. The universe was smaller than even a pore on your skin. With the big bang, the fabric of space itself began expanding like the surface of an inflating balloon. Then exploded.
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105 B.C. - The Cimbri inflict the heaviest defeat on the Roman army of Gnaeus Mallius Maximus.
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141 B.C. - Liu Che, posthumously known as Emperor Wu of Han, assumes the throne over the Han Dynasty of China.
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153 B.C. - Roman consuls begin their year in office.
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Judas Maccabaeus, son of Mattathias of the Hasmonean family, restores the Temple in Jerusalem. This event is commemorated each year by the festival of Hanukkah.
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Battle of Zama: Hannibal Barca, leader of the invading Carthaginian army, defeated by Roman legions under Scipio Africanus.
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215 B.C. - A temple is built on the Capitoline Hill dedicated to Venus Erycina to commemorate the Roman defeat at Lake Trasimene.
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216 B.C. - Carthaginian army lead by Hannibal defeats numerically superior Roman army under command consuls Lucius Aemilius Paullus and Gaius Terentius Varro.
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217 B.C. - Ptolemy IV of Egypt defeats Antiochus III the Great of the Seleucid kingdom.
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168 B.C. - Romans under Lucius Aemilius Paullus defeat and capture Macedonian King Perseus, ending the Third Macedonian War.
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Ptolemy V ascends to the throne of Egypt.
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218 B.C. - Hannibal's Carthaginian forces defeat those of the Roman Republic.
