120s BC

Millennium:	1st millennium BC
Centuries:	3rd century BC – 2nd century BC – 1st century BC
Decades:	150s BC 140s BC 130s BC – 120s BC – 110s BC 100s BC 90s BC
Years:	129 BC 128 BC 127 BC 126 BC 125 BC 124 BC 123 BC 122 BC 121 BC 120 BC
Categories:	Births – Deaths – Architecture Establishments – Disestablishments

Contents 1 Events and trends 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 References

Events and trends

• 129 BC – Pergamum becomes the Roman province of Asia. [1]
  • Collapse of Seleucid Empire.
• 128 BC – Northern and central Korea slips from Chinese control. [1]
• c127 BC – Hipparchus makes observations on the star Eta Canis Majoris. [1]
• 123 BC – Carthage rebuilt.[2]
  • Gaius Gracchus elected tribune of Rome.[2]
  • Mithradates II becomes king of Parthia.[1]

Births

Deaths

• 129 BC – Scipio Africanus the Younger, Roman conqueror (born 185 BC)
  • Antiochus VII Sidetes, king of Syria
• 127 BC – Phraates II, king of Parthia
• 124 BC – Artabanus I, king of Parthia
• 123 BC, Gaius Gracchus, Roman tribune

References

• 1. "2nd century BC". People's Chronology. The Gale Group Inc., 2005. Retrieved from Answers.com June 8, 2009.
• 2. Grun, Bernard. The Timetables of History, fourth edition. New York, Simon & Schuster, 2004, p. 22.