100 BC
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Centuries: 2nd century BC - 1st century BC - 1st century
Decades: 130s BC 120s BC 110s BC - 100s BC - 90s BC 80s BC 70s BC 60s BC 50s BC
Years: 105 BC 104 BC 103 BC 102 BC 101 BC - 100 BC - 99 BC 98 BC 97 BC 96 BC 95 BC
Events
- Anatolia
- *Tigranes II of Armenia is placed on Armenian throne by the Parthians in exchange for the cession of "seventy valleys". (approximate date)
- Middle East
- *Elephants 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
- *Consuls: Lucius Valerius Flaccus, 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.
Births
- July 12 - Julius Caesar, Roman general and politician
- Titus Labienus, Caesar's chief lieutenant in the conquest of Gaul
Deaths
- Cornelia Africana, widow of Tiberius Gracchus
- Lucius Appuleius Saturninus, Roman politician
- Theodosius of Bithynia, Greek astronomer and mathematician
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