120s BC 110s BC - - 90s BC 80s BC 70s BC 60s BC 50s BC
104 BC 103 BC 102 BC 101 BC - - 99 BC 98 BC 97 BC 96 BC 95 BC
- Anatolia
- --- Tigranes II Of Armenia is placed on Armenia n throne by the Parthia ns in exchange for the cession of "seventy valleys". (approximate date)
- Middle East
- --- Elephant s became extinct from Middle East by this date.
- China
- ---Peasant revolts under Emperor Wu Of Han
- India
- --- Gandhara and Punjab ruled by the Indo-Greek king Demetrios III
- Judea
- ---The Deuterocanonical Books of 1 and 2 Maccabees written
- Mesoamerica
- ---Mural room in the Maya pyramid at San Bartolo , Guatemala , painted
- Roman Republic
- ---, Gaius Marius (Marius's sixth consulship)
- --- Manius Aquillius celebrates a Triumph for victories in the Second Servile War
- --- Lucius Appuleius Saturninus , a Tribune , passes a law to redistribute land to military veterans. The law requires that all senators swear to abide by it. Quintus Caecilus Metellus Numidicus refuses and is exiled. He goes to Rhodes to study philosophy.
- ---December: Saturninus stands for consul for the following year. A rival candidate, Gaius Memmius , is found murdered by agents of Saturninus, who is declared a public enemy by the Senate . Marius, as consul, defeats his former ally in battle in the Forum . Saturninus and his followers surrender on condition that their lives are spared, but they are stoned to death with roof tiles by renegade senators.
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