198 BC

Millennium:	1st millennium BC
Centuries:	3rd century BC – 2nd century BC – 1st century BC
Decades:	220s BC  210s BC  200s BC  – 190s BC –  180s BC  170s BC  160s BC
Years:	201 BC 200 BC 199 BC – 198 BC – 197 BC 196 BC 195 BC

198 BC in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	198 BC CXCVII BC
Ab urbe condita	556
Ancient Egypt era	XXXIII dynasty, 126
- Pharaoh	Ptolemy V Epiphanes, 6
Ancient Greek era	145th Olympiad, year 3
Assyrian calendar	4553
Bengali calendar	−790
Berber calendar	753
Buddhist calendar	347
Burmese calendar	−835
Byzantine calendar	5311–5312
Chinese calendar	壬寅年 (Water Tiger) 2499 or 2439     — to — 癸卯年 (Water Rabbit) 2500 or 2440
Coptic calendar	−481 – −480
Discordian calendar	969
Ethiopian calendar	−205 – −204
Hebrew calendar	3563–3564
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	−141 – −140
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	2904–2905
Holocene calendar	9803
Iranian calendar	819 BP – 818 BP
Islamic calendar	844 BH – 843 BH
Julian calendar	N/A
Korean calendar	2136
Minguo calendar	2109 before ROC 民前2109年
Seleucid era	114/115 AG
Thai solar calendar	345–346

Year 198 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Catus and Flamininus (or, less frequently, year 556 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 198 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.

Events

By place

Roman Republic

• After his election to the consulship, Titus Quinctius Flamininus is chosen to replace Publius Sulpicius Galba Maximus as the leading Roman general in Macedonia. He then crosses into Macedonia with his army. Flamininus realizes that future peace depends on breaking the power of king Philip V of Macedon, not merely humbling him. He secures the backing of the Achaean League and then opens peace negotiations with Philip at Nicaea in Locris. Though peace proposals are submitted to the Roman Senate, the talks break down, and fighting resumes.
• Titus Quinctius Flamininus' forces manage to push Philip V out of most of Greece, except for a few fortresses. He then defeats Philip V in the Battle of the Aous, near modern Tepelenë in Albania.

Seleucid Empire

• The Battle of Panium is fought between Seleucid forces led by Antiochus III and Ptolemaic forces led by Scopas of Aetolia. The Seleucids win the battle which allows Antiochus III to obtain entire possession of Palestine and Coele-Syria from King Ptolemy V of Egypt. Though the Romans send ambassadors to Ptolemy V, they are unable to lend him any serious assistance against Antiochus III.
• In the resulting peace, Antiochus III agrees to give his daughter Cleopatra in marriage to Ptolemy V.

China

• Following the defeat of the Han at the hands of the Xiongnu at Baideng in 200 BC, courtier Liu Jing (劉敬) is dispatched by Han emperor Gaozu for negotiations. The peace settlement eventually reached between the parties includes a Han princess given in marriage to the chanyu (called heqin 和親 or "harmonious kinship"); periodic tribute of silk, liquor and rice to the Xiongnu; equal status between the states; and the Great Wall as mutual border. This treaty sets the pattern for relations between the Han and the Xiongnu for some sixty years.