This page relates to the year -104 Calendrier Julien proleptic.

Events

• With Rome, consulate of Gaius Flavius Fimbria and, for the second time, Caius Marius.

• Marius makes dig a channel which connects the the Rhone to the gulf of Fos.
• Disappearance of the country class in Rome: during the discussion of an agrarian law, the powerful orator Lucius Marcius Philippus declares that there is not more than 2000 citizens owners, whereas the figures of the taxable quota record more 400  000 mobilizable citizens.

• Beginning of the Second servile War new revolt of slaves and shepherds, in Sicily and Campania, crushed in Sicily by the consul Manius Aquilius Nepos (fine in -101).

• Reign of Gauda, king of the Numides
• the kings numides become in fact of vassal of Rome. Bocchus, king of Maurétanie, is rewarded by the Romans who grant part of the territory numide to him corresponding to the Oran IE.
• Hiempsal, wire of Gauda (unknown dates of reign), will be devoted to improve the administration of the kingdom. Fine well-read man, it writes in punic language a book on the history of Africa, lost today.

Art & culture

• the Han found the calendar Taichu or calendar of the “Great beginning”.
• Creation of the park Bechaï, one of the first Chinese gardens
• Roscius of Amérie introduces the port of the tragic mask into the Roman theater.

Births

Death

• January 1st: Jugurtha king of Numidie, in prison.