125 BC

December 2024 February 2024 February 2024 -125 125 __NOTOC__ Year 125 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Hypsaeus and Flaccus (or, less frequently, year 629 Ab urbe condita) and the Fourth Year of Yuanshuo. The denomination 125 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. Events By place Syria Cleopatra Thea succeeds to the rule of the Seleucid Empire on the death of Seleucus V.Salisbury Joyce Joyce E. Salisbury Encyclopedia of Women in the Ancient World https://archive.org/details/encyclopediawome00sali limited 2001 ABC-CLIO 56 She appoints Antiochus VIII Grypus as co-ruler. Roman Republic In Rome, Marcus Fulvius Flaccus proposes the extension of Roman citizenship to the northern Italians, but the Senate reacts by sending him off to deal with disturbances around Massilia. And in so doing, commences the conquest of Transalpine Gaul. Completion of Aqua Tepula aqueduct in Rome.John E. Stambaugh The Ancient Roman City 1988 Baltimore Johns Hopkins University Press 37 0-8018-3574-7 China In retaliation for the Han conquest of the Ordos Plateau two years prior, three Xiongnu forces raid the Prefectures of Dai, Dingxiang and Shang. The Xiongnu Tuqi (Worthy Prince) of the Right (West), especially angry at the loss of the Ordos Plateau, invades the region and kills or carries off a large number of officials and other inhabitants.Hing Ming Hung The Magnificent Emperor Wu: China's Han Dynasty 2020 978-1628944167 141–142 Births Quintus Sertorius, Roman statesman and general (d. 73 BC) Deaths Demetrius II, king of the Seleucid Empire Seleucus V Philometor (killed by Cleopatra Thea) References