121 BC

Year 121 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Opimius and Allobrogicus (or, less frequently, year 633 Ab urbe condita) and the Second Year of Yuanshou. The denomination 121 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
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
121 BC in various calendars
Gregorian calendar121 BC
CXX BC
Ab urbe condita633
Ancient Egypt eraXXXIII dynasty, 203
- PharaohPtolemy VIII Physcon, 25
Ancient Greek era164th Olympiad, year 4
Assyrian calendar4630
Balinese saka calendarN/A
Bengali calendar−713
Berber calendar830
Buddhist calendar424
Burmese calendar−758
Byzantine calendar5388–5389
Chinese calendar己未(Earth Goat)
2576 or 2516
     to 
庚申年 (Metal Monkey)
2577 or 2517
Coptic calendar−404 – −403
Discordian calendar1046
Ethiopian calendar−128 – −127
Hebrew calendar3640–3641
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat−64 – −63
 - Shaka SamvatN/A
 - Kali Yuga2980–2981
Holocene calendar9880
Iranian calendar742 BP – 741 BP
Islamic calendar765 BH – 764 BH
Javanese calendarN/A
Julian calendarN/A
Korean calendar2213
Minguo calendar2032 before ROC
民前2032年
Nanakshahi calendar−1588
Seleucid era191/192 AG
Thai solar calendar422–423
Tibetan calendar阴土羊年
(female Earth-Goat)
6 or −375 or −1147
     to 
阳金猴年
(male Iron-Monkey)
7 or −374 or −1146

Events

Roman Republic

  • The Roman Senate passes the motion senatus consultum ultimum, which the consul Lucius Opimius interprets as giving him unlimited power to preserve the Republic. He gathers an armed force of Senators and their supporters to confront Gaius Gracchus. A pitched battle is fought inside Rome, resulting in the death of Gracchus and many of his followers.
  • A tribunal is established in Rome that executes 3,000 followers of Gracchus.
  • Consul Quintus Fabius Maximus, allied with the Aedui, defeats the Arverni and Allobroges in Transalpine Gaul, thus establishing the province for Rome.
  • The finest vintage of Falernian wine, known as the Opimian vintage, is bottled from vines grown on Mt Falernus between Latium and Campania.

Asia

  • Led by General Huo Qubing, the Chinese defeat the Xiongnu, killing more than 40000 Xiongnu soldiers, including seven xiongnu princes.

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