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124 BC

Revolt of Fregellae against Rome in Latium, later the city was captured and destroyed by the Romans.

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126 BC

Seleucus V Philometor succeeds his father Demetrius II as king of the Seleucid Empire. Due to his youth, his stepmother Cleopatra Thea acts as regent.

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128 BC

The Greco-Bactrian kingdom is overrun by the Tocharians and renamed Tocharistan.

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129 bc

Total solar eclipse, used by Hipparchus to estimate distance to the moon.

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130 BC

Pacuvius, tragic poet, died in Tarentum

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132 bc

The assassination of Tiberius Gracchus, which many historians marked as the beginning of the end of the Roman Republic.

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134 BC

John Hyrcanus becomes High Priest and king of Judea following the murder of his father Simon Maccabaeus by Ptolemy the son of Abubus.

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136 BC

Confucianism is adopted as the state religion in China by the emperor Wu Di.

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138 BC

Hymn to Apollo is written and inscribed on stone in Delphi; it is the earliest surviving notated music, in a substantial and legible fragment, in the western world.

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139 BC

The Lusitanian War ended when the rebellion collapsed after the assassination of Viriathus by a Roman agent.

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