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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

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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.

Rome

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140 BC

Scipio Aemilianus leads a group of Roman ambassadors to Alexandria, where they meet with Ptolemy VIII.

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141 BC

Tocharian refugees appear on the borders of the Greco-Bactrian kingdom

Bactria

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142 BC

First stone bridge over the Tiber river completed.

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143 BC

Simon Maccabaeus succeeds his brother Jonathan as High Priest and king of Judea

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144 BC

Celtiberian War ends when Q. Caecilius Metellus crushes the rebels.

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146 BC

Battle of Corinth — The Romans under Lucius Mummius defeat the Achaean League under Critolaus near Corinth. Corinth is destroyed, and the Achaean League dissolved. Greece becomes a Roman province.

Greece

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148 BC

Publius Cornelius Scipio Aemilianus divides Numidia between the three sons of the recently-deceased Masinissa.

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150 BC

Aphrodite of Melos (also called Venus de Milo) is made. (approximate date) Discovered in 1820. It is now at Musee du Louvre, Paris.

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151 BC

M. Claudius Marcellus temporarily restored order in Spain by defeating the Lusitanians and Celtiberians.

Rome

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152 BC

Macedonian uprisings, sometimes called the Fourth Macedonian War, broke out when Andriscus, supposed son of Perseus, led a rebellion against Rome and temporarily united Macedon.

Macedon

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153 BC

Substantial parts of the city of Sikyon destroyed by an earthquake.

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155 BC

Triumphs of Marcus Claudius Marcellus over the Apuani, and Publius Cornelius Scipio Nasica Corculum over the Dalmatians.

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157 BC

Gaius Marius, Roman general and politician is born.

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158 BC

Publius Rutilius Rufus, Roman consul in 105 BC, was born

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160 BC

King Apollodotus I of the Indo-Greek Kingdom and Agathocles of Bactria die and are succeeded by Menander I (approximate date).

btw, I thought it said Bacteria, not Bactria :lol:

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162 BC

Death of Gnaeus Octavius, Roman ex-consul

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164 BC

In October, Ptolemy VI of Egypt goes to Rome to ask for help from the Senate.

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165 BC

December — Judas Maccabaeus defeats the Seleucid rulers of Judea in the Battle of Beth Zur, leading to the recapture of Jerusalem.

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167 BC

Antiochus IV Epiphanes decrees that Hellenistic practices be followed by all of his subjects. This decree causes Judas Maccabeus, one of the five sons of Mattathias, to continue his father's revolt, started the previous year in Modi'in. Mattathias is considered the founder of the Hasmonean dynasty. With only one exception all manuscripts of I Maccabees are in agreement that the "abomination of desolation" occurred on 6 December 167 BCE.

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168 BC

Third Macedonian War ends with the Battle of Pydna. Romans under Lucius Aemilius Paullus (awarded the surname "Macedonicus" for this victory) defeat and capture Perseus of Macedon when he surrendered. This ends the Antigonid dynasty, one of the three successor empires created upon the death of Alexander the Great, and starts Roman domination of Greece.

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170 BC

= Perseus of Macedon repulses a Roman army commanded by A. Hostilius Mancinus in Thessaly.

= The earliest known paved streets appear in Rome.

= Crates of Mallus visits Rome.

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172 BC

Third Macedonian War commenced when war broke out between Perseus of Macedon and Eumenes II of Pergamum, after an assassination attempt on Eumenes, which instigated by Perseus, failed, Rome entered the war in support of Eumenes.

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174 BC

In Rome, Quintus Fulvius Flaccus and Aulus Postumius Albinus become censors, and expel nine men from the Senate.

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176 BC

Ptolemy VI becomes sole ruler of Egypt.

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178 BC

The Roman Senate threatens intervention if Rhodes does not stop harassing the people of Lycia.

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179 BC

Wars ended in Spain by the campaigns and peace settlement of Gracchus

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181 BC

Aquileia is founded