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107 BC

Gaius Marius, having enacted the Marian reforms of the Roman army, arrived in North Africa to lead the war against Jugurtha, with a young quaestor named Lucius Cornelius Sulla as a subordinate.

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109 BC

A Roman army under Marcus Junius Silanus was defeated by the Cimbri and Teutones near the Rhone River.

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111 BC

During the reign of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, Guilin is named Shi An Prefecture.

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115 BC

Gaius Marius is praetor in Rome, he defeats barbarian tribes in modern-day Spain.

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117 BC

Huo Qubing, Chinese general of the Han Dynasty, dies

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118 BC

The oldest known painted depiction of a wheelbarrow is found in a Chinese tomb of Chengde, Sichuan province, dated to this year.


Asia

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119 BC

the Han Chinese army under the commanders Wei Qing (d. 106 BC) and Huo Qubing (140 BC-117 BC) are victorious over the Xiongnu in the Battle of Mobei, taken place in the Orkhon Valley of the Gobi Desert, modern Mongolia.

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120 BC

Foss Dyke is constructed in Britain

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121 BC

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.

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123 BC

Gaius Gracchus elected Roman tribune for the first time. He waited until after his re-election the following year before pushing forward the various civil and agrarian reforms that his brother championed in 133 BC.

Rome