"162 bc."

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Events
Consuls Publius Cornelius Scipio Nazica Corculus (patricius) and Gaius Marcius Figul (plebeian). Consul-suffects of Publius Cornelius Lentulus and Gnaeus Domitius Agenobarb.
Roman commissioner in Syria killed. The Senate left the case unanswered.
Fiscon went to Rome and asked to add Cyprus to his possessions. But when the Roman ambassadors arrived in Alexandria, Philometor convinced them that he was right. The Cyrene rebelled against Fiscon, led by Ptolemy Simptesis. Fiscon went to Cyrene and was defeated by an army of Cyrene and Libyans. But the Cyrenians still had to accept Philip.
Demetrius easily conquered the major Syrian cities and declared himself king. He surrounded himself with mercenaries and entered Antioch. The troops captured Antigonus and Lysius and brought them to Demetrius, who ordered them to be executed immediately.
162-150 Seleucid King Demetrius I Soter ("Savior") (187-150). Son of Seleucus IV. He waged a fierce war with the Jews.
Eucrates moves to conquer India, where power passed to the heirs of Demetrius, and seizes most of their possessions.
China:
Han and Hunnu make peace on equal terms.

Died.
Gnaeus Octavius – Consul of 165 BC;
Antiochus V Eupator, king of the Seleucid state
Lysius is the ruler of satrapy in Syria.