-123

This page relates to the year -123 Calendrier Julien proleptic.

Events

With Rome, Consul At of Titus Quinctius Flaminius, Q. Caecilius Metellus Baliaricus.

the law on the Céréale S of Caïus Gracchus ensures the subsistence of the proletarians.

Law on the province of Asia: the dîme, the tax of pasturage, will scriptura and the customs of the province are the subject of an adjudication to the profit of the Publicain S (equestrian class). Caius Gracchus rejoins with its cause the knights.

Caius Gracchus, to weaken the capacities of the Senate, excluded the senators from the quaestio perpetuated (created in -149) and of the Lex Sempronia : it decides that the members of the court selected in a list of will be sworn including/understanding 600 knights. The senators, losing the control of the court, lose the control of the provinces and the knights reach for the first time functions which exceed the legal framework.

the Romains put an end to a series of attacks by the tribe celto-Ligurian of the Salluvii (Salyens) against the town of Massalia (Marseilles). Sextius Cavinus destroys the Oppidum Entremont.
the Romans grant to the Eduens, which control the junction of the the Saone and the the Rhone, the title of allied people of Rome. Combined Arvernes, the Allobroges attack Eduens. Eduens ask for the assistance of Rome which sends an army.
Fabius Maximus subjects the Allobroges and appendix their territory between the the Alps and the the Rhone.

Died of the king Parthian Artaban II in Bactriane where it pushed back Saka or Tokharien S (Yue-tche?). His/her son Mithridate II succeeds to him.
Beginning of the reign of Mithridate II Large the, king of the Parthes (fine in -86). He intervenes in Babylonia against Hyspaosines. The Parthian capacity is restored at the end of two years (-120).

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