104 BC
Year 104 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Marius and Fimbria (or, less frequently, year 650 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 104 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.
| Millennium: | 1st millennium BC |
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| Gregorian calendar | 104 BC CIII BC |
| Ab urbe condita | 650 |
| Ancient Egypt era | XXXIII dynasty, 220 |
| - Pharaoh | Ptolemy X Alexander, 4 |
| Ancient Greek era | 169th Olympiad (victor)¹ |
| Assyrian calendar | 4647 |
| Balinese saka calendar | N/A |
| Bengali calendar | −696 |
| Berber calendar | 847 |
| Buddhist calendar | 441 |
| Burmese calendar | −741 |
| Byzantine calendar | 5405–5406 |
| Chinese calendar | 丙子年 (Fire Rat) 2593 or 2533 — to — 丁丑年 (Fire Ox) 2594 or 2534 |
| Coptic calendar | −387 – −386 |
| Discordian calendar | 1063 |
| Ethiopian calendar | −111 – −110 |
| Hebrew calendar | 3657–3658 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | −47 – −46 |
| - Shaka Samvat | N/A |
| - Kali Yuga | 2997–2998 |
| Holocene calendar | 9897 |
| Iranian calendar | 725 BP – 724 BP |
| Islamic calendar | 747 BH – 746 BH |
| Javanese calendar | N/A |
| Julian calendar | N/A |
| Korean calendar | 2230 |
| Minguo calendar | 2015 before ROC 民前2015年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | −1571 |
| Seleucid era | 208/209 AG |
| Thai solar calendar | 439–440 |
| Tibetan calendar | 阳火鼠年 (male Fire-Rat) 23 or −358 or −1130 — to — 阴火牛年 (female Fire-Ox) 24 or −357 or −1129 |
Events
Roman Republic
- Rome enacts a state of emergency, as the way to Italy lays open to the Germanic invaders. Gaius Marius, the conqueror of Jugurtha, is elected consul for the second time. He celebrates his triumph over Jugurtha, who is led in the procession and thrown into the Tullianum where he dies of starvation.
- Second Servile War: Athenion starts a slave rebellion in Segesta (Sicily).
Judea
- Aristobulus I succeeds John Hyrcanus, becoming king and high priest of Judea, until 103 BC.
Asia
- Emperor Wu of Han maintains large armies of occupation and burdens the Chinese economy. Landowners expand their holdings, but farmers are forced to borrow at usurious rates and pay 50 percent of their crops as rent. Homelessness and banditry increases, and agricultural productivity declines.
- Sima Qian starts writing his Shiji.
Births
- Julia, mother of Mark Antony
- Servilia, mistress of Julius Caesar
Deaths
- Dong Zhongshu, Chinese scholar who promoted Confucianism at the central court of the Han Dynasty (b. 179 BC)
- Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus, Roman consul and general
- John Hyrcanus, prince and high priest of Judea (b. 164 BC)
- Jugurtha, king of Numidia (execution by Rome) (b. c. 169 BC)
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