124 BC

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Millennium: 1st millennium BC
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124 BC in various calendars
Gregorian calendar 124 BC
CXXIII BC
Ab urbe condita 630
Ancient Egypt era XXXIII dynasty, 200
- Pharaoh Ptolemy VIII Physcon, 22
Ancient Greek era 164th Olympiad (victor
Assyrian calendar 4627
Balinese saka calendar N/A
Bengali calendar −716
Berber calendar 827
Buddhist calendar 421
Burmese calendar −761
Byzantine calendar 5385–5386
Chinese calendar 丙辰(Fire  Dragon)
2573 or 2513
     to 
丁巳年 (Fire  Snake)
2574 or 2514
Coptic calendar −407 – −406
Discordian calendar 1043
Ethiopian calendar −131 – −130
Hebrew calendar 3637–3638
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat −67 – −66
 - Shaka Samvat N/A
 - Kali Yuga 2977–2978
Holocene calendar 9877
Iranian calendar 745 BP – 744 BP
Islamic calendar 768 BH – 767 BH
Javanese calendar N/A
Julian calendar N/A
Korean calendar 2210
Minguo calendar 2035 before ROC
民前2035年
Nanakshahi calendar −1591
Seleucid era 188/189 AG
Thai solar calendar 419–420
Tibetan calendar 阳火龙年
(male Fire-Dragon)
3 or −378 or −1150
     to 
阴火蛇年
(female Fire-Snake)
4 or −377 or −1149

Year 124 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Longinus and Calvinus (or, less frequently, year 630 Ab urbe condita ) and the Fifth Year of Yuanshuo. The denomination 124 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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  • Spring: The Han general Wei Qing, with an army of 30,000 cavalry, proceeds from Gaoque into Xiongnu territory, and in a night attack surrounds the Tuqi (Worthy Prince) of the Right (West) in his camp. The Tuqi escapes, but numerous petty chiefs are captured in this and a second engagement.
  • Further to the east, Li Xi and Zhang Ci Gong march out from Youbeiping Prefecture into Xiongnu territory.
  • Emperor Wu of Han rewards Wei Qing by making him General-in-Chief. [1]
  • Autumn: The Xiongnu retaliate by invading the Prefecture of Dai, where they kill its chief commandant, Zhu Ying. [2]

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Yizhixie Chanyu of the Xiongnu Empire

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References

  1. Hung, Hing Ming (2020). The Magnificent Emperor Wu: China's Han Dynasty. pp. 142–143. ISBN   978-1628944167.
  2. Qian, Sima. Records of the Grand Historian, Section: Wei Qing & Huo Qubing.