107 BC

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107 BC in various calendars
Gregorian calendar 107 BC
CVII BC
Ab urbe condita 647
Ancient Egypt era XXXIII dynasty, 217
- Pharaoh Ptolemy X Alexander, 1
Ancient Greek era 168th Olympiad, year 2
Assyrian calendar 4644
Balinese saka calendar N/A
Bengali calendar −699
Berber calendar 844
Buddhist calendar 438
Burmese calendar −744
Byzantine calendar 5402–5403
Chinese calendar 癸酉年 (Water  Rooster)
2591 or 2384
     to 
甲戌年 (Wood  Dog)
2592 or 2385
Coptic calendar −390 – −389
Discordian calendar 1060
Ethiopian calendar −114 – −113
Hebrew calendar 3654–3655
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat −50 – −49
 - Shaka Samvat N/A
 - Kali Yuga 2994–2995
Holocene calendar 9894
Iranian calendar 728 BP – 727 BP
Islamic calendar 750 BH – 749 BH
Javanese calendar N/A
Julian calendar N/A
Korean calendar 2227
Minguo calendar 2018 before ROC
民前2018年
Nanakshahi calendar −1574
Seleucid era 205/206 AG
Thai solar calendar 436–437
Tibetan calendar 阴水鸡年
(female Water-Rooster)
20 or −361 or −1133
     to 
阳木狗年
(male Wood-Dog)
21 or −360 or −1132

Year 107 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Ravilla[ citation needed ] and Marius (or, less frequently, year 647 Ab urbe condita ) and the Fourth Year of Yuanfeng. The denomination 107 BC for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

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References

  1. Dillon, Matthew; Matthew, Christopher (2020). Religion & Classical Warfare: The Roman Republic. Pen and Sword Military. ISBN   978-1473889699.
  2. Lynda Telford, Sulla A Dictator Reconsidered, p.43