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100 BC
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Year '''100 BC''' was a year of the Roman calendar|pre-Julian calendar.
Events
By place
Rome
- Consuls: Lucius Valerius Flaccus (princeps senatus 86 BC)|Lucius Valerius Flaccus, Gaius Marius (Marius's sixth consulship).
- Manius Aquillius (101 BC)|Manius Aquillius celebrates an ovation 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 (Tribune)|Gaius Memmius, is found murdered by agents of Saturninus, who is declared a public enemy by the Roman Senate|Senate. Marius, as consul, defeats his former ally in battle in the Roman Forum|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.
- The building of the Sanctuary of Fortuna Primigenia, Palestrina, Italy, is begun. The model of it is now kept at the Museo Archeológico Nazionale, Italy (approximate date).
Anatolia
- Tigranes II of Armenia is placed on Armenian throne by the Parthians in exchange for the cession of "seventy valleys". (approximate date)
Judea
- The deuterocanonical books of 1 Maccabees|1 and 2 Maccabees are written.
Middle East
- Elephants become extinct from Middle East by this date.
Asia
- Peasant revolts under Emperor Wu of Han.
- Gandhara and Punjab region|Punjab ruled by the Indo-Greek Kingdom|Indo-Greek king Demetrios III.
- History of China is written by Sima Qian (approximate date).
Americas
- Mural room in the Maya civilization|Maya pyramid at San Bartolo (ruins)|San Bartolo, Guatemala, painted.
Births
- July 13—Julius Caesar, Roman general and politician (or 102 BC) (d. 44 BC)
- Titus Labienus, Caesar's chief lieutenant in the conquest of Gaul (d. 45 BC)
Deaths
- Cornelia Africana, widow of Tiberius Gracchus (b. c. 190 BC)
- Lucius Appuleius Saturninus, Roman politician
- Theodosius of Bithynia, Greek astronomer and mathematician (b. c. 160 BC)
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Related Images- The world in 100 BC.
- The eastern hemisphere in 100 BC.
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