99 BC

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99 BC in various calendars
Gregorian calendar 99 BC
XCIX BC
Ab urbe condita 655
Ancient Egypt era XXXIII dynasty, 225
- Pharaoh Ptolemy X Alexander, 9
Ancient Greek era 170th Olympiad, year 2
Assyrian calendar 4652
Balinese saka calendar N/A
Bengali calendar −691
Berber calendar 852
Buddhist calendar 446
Burmese calendar −736
Byzantine calendar 5410–5411
Chinese calendar 辛巳年 (Metal  Snake)
2599 or 2392
    — to —
壬午年 (Water  Horse)
2600 or 2393
Coptic calendar −382 – −381
Discordian calendar 1068
Ethiopian calendar −106 – −105
Hebrew calendar 3662–3663
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat −42 – −41
 - Shaka Samvat N/A
 - Kali Yuga 3002–3003
Holocene calendar 9902
Iranian calendar 720 BP – 719 BP
Islamic calendar 742 BH – 741 BH
Javanese calendar N/A
Julian calendar N/A
Korean calendar 2235
Minguo calendar 2010 before ROC
民前2010年
Nanakshahi calendar −1566
Seleucid era 213/214 AG
Thai solar calendar 444–445
Tibetan calendar 阴金蛇年
(female Iron-Snake)
28 or −353 or −1125
    — to —
阳水马年
(male Water-Horse)
29 or −352 or −1124

Year 99 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Antonius and Albinus (or, less frequently, year 655 Ab urbe condita ) and the Second Year of Tianhan. The denomination 99 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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  • The Han general Li Guangli marches west from Jiuquan with 30,000 cavalrymen to attack the Tuqi King of the Right in the Tian Shan Mountains. After an initial victory, the Han are surrounded, and they lose more than 20,000 men while breaking out of the encirclement.
  • The Han generals Lu Bode and Gongsun Ao march into the Zhuoxie Mountains, but they encounter no Xiongnu forces and turn back. [1]
  • Autumn – The Han general Li Ling leads 5000 crack infantry and a cavalry force from Juyan Lake into the eastern Altay Mountains but is pursued by Qiedihou Chanyu. After a desperate fighting retreat across more than 500km of Xiongnu territory, the Han expedition runs out of arrows. Li Ling surrenders and his force disintegrates in the Tihan Mountains, about 50km from the Great Wall of China.
  • Emperor Wu of Han has the 'Grand Historian' Sima Qian castrated after the latter argues in defense of Li Ling's surrender. [2]

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References

  1. ↑ Hung, Hing Ming (2020). The Magnificent Emperor Wu: China's Han Dynasty. Algora. pp. 208–209. ISBN   978-1628944167.
  2. ↑ Hung, Hing Ming (2020). The Magnificent Emperor Wu: China's Han Dynasty. Algora. pp. 213–218. ISBN   978-1628944167.
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