-124
This page relates to the year -124 Calendrier Julien proleptic.
Events
China
- Foundation of the first University in China.
- All the civils servant Chinese are obliged to know the doctrines of Confucius.
World hellenistic
- Return to Alexandria of Cléopâtre II which reconciles with his/her brother Ptolémée VIII and his/her daughter Cléopâtre III.
- Beginning of the reign of Antiochos VIII in Syria (end in -96).
Roman world
- With Rome, Consul At of Gaius Cassius Longinus, Gaius Sextius Calvinus.
- In Rome, tribunat of Caius Gracchus.
- Caius Gracchus restores at the commission triumvirale charged to apply the agrarian law its prerogatives (right of delimitations) slowed down by the law of -129. It reinforces the agrarian law by redistributing the ager publicus (public domain) with the Romans as with the Italians, in Italy as in Africa; it institutes distributions of corn at reduced price (to fight against electoral corruption), decides the foundation of new colonies with Tarente, Capoue, Carthage and Corinthe, makes build roads, attics in Italy, intended measures to relieve misery of the small people.
- Caius Gracchus, during its tribunat, makes vote a law prohibiting to enlist soldiers of less than 17 years.
- Epidemic in Africa.
Science & technology
- Héron of Alexandria gives its formula to calculate the surface of the Triangle.
Births
-
Antiochos d' Ascalon (v.124- 127).
- Gaius Aurelius Cotta
Death
-
Caius Sempronius Gracchus
- Séleucos V, assassinated by his/her mother Cléopâtre Théa.
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