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The 110s BC

60 sourced entries across 10 years, inside the 2nd century BC. Each year below opens its own page; the lines under it are that year’s highest-ranked entries.

119 BCE6 entries

  • Government monopolies are established in iron, salt and liquor.
  • Spring: Han Chinese forces under the General-in-Chief Wei Qing and the cavalry general Huo Qubing invade the Xiongnu Empire.
  • The second Dalmatian war begins.

118 BCE7 entries

  • The Roman colony of Narbo Martius is founded in Gallia Transalpina.
  • The Second Dalmatian War ends with victory for Rome. Lucius Caecilius Metellus assumes the surname Delmaticus.
  • Micipsa dies and Numidia, following the king's wish, is divided into three parts, a third each ruled by Micipsa's own sons, Adherbal and Hiempsal I, and the king's adopted son, Jugurtha.

117 BCE4 entries

  • Quintus Marcius Rex triumphs over the Stoeni tribe of northern Italy.

116 BCE6 entries

  • June 26 – At the death of Ptolemy VIII Physcon, Cleopatra III has chosen her younger son Ptolemy X Alexander as co-regent, but the Alexandrians force her to bring Ptolemy IX from Cyprus, of which he is governor.
  • Ptolemy IX Philometor Soter II Lathyros becomes king of Egypt and claims the throne.

115 BCE7 entries

  • Marcus Aemilius Scaurus defeats the Carni Celtic tribes of Northern Italy, leading to their submission to Roman rule.
  • The Kingdom of Sheba collapses.
  • Gaius Marius is praetor in Rome: he defeats Celtic tribes in modern-day Spain.

114 BCE7 entries

  • Horos, son of Haruotes, a resident of the temple of Isis in Egypt, attacked a worshiper at the temple.
  • Silk Road routes opened to traders and merchants, exporting goods from east to west.
  • The Scordisci defeat Gaius Porcius Cato

113 BCE9 entries

  • The state of Nanyue, a vassal of the Han dynasty, agrees to submit to Han laws and receives envoys to oversee the succession of the young king Zhao Xing.
  • An incense burner, later found in the tomb of Liu Sheng, Prince of Zhongshan in Mancheng, Hebei, is made during the Han dynasty. It is now kept at Hebei Provincial Museum, Shijiazhuang.
  • Cirta is besieged by Jugurtha.

112 BCE2 entries

  • The Roman Senate declares war against Jugurtha following the Siege of Cirta (ends 105 BC).
  • Emperor Wu executes his favourite necromancer Luan Da for fraud.

111 BCE6 entries

  • Jugurtha, king of Numidia, bribes the commander Lucius Calpurnius Bestia and Roman friends to secure easy terms. He is given a safe conduct to Rome in order to account for his actions in the Roman Senate. Jugurtha contemptuously bribes his way through all difficulties.
  • Han-Xiongnu War: the Han generals Gongsun He and Zhao Ponu invade deep into Xiongnu territory, Gongsun marching from Wuhuan and Zhao from Lingju. However, neither come upon a Xiongnu army. There follows a period of several years in which the Han and Xiongnu seek to establish peace.
  • The city of Rome is devastated by fire.

110 BCE6 entries

  • Jugurtha, king of Numidia, defeats a Roman army under Aulus Postumius Albinus.