124 BC

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Heads of State

Year of the Fire Snake丁巳(at the beginning of Fire Dragon丙辰)

Syria: 188/189 ( year in October )

Events

  • Apodakos is after the death of the ruler Hyspaosines Charakene.
  • Egypt: Public reconciliation of Cleopatra II with Ptolemy VIII after a long civil war (since 132 BC) to govern together to 116 BC
  • Antiochus VIII, ruler of the Seleucid Empire, married the Egyptian princess Tryphaena, daughter of the Egyptian king Ptolemy VIII and Cleopatra III of his niece.

Born

  • Around 124 BC: Asclepiades of Prusa in Bithynia († 60 BC)
  • Around 124 BC: Gaius Aurelius Cotta, Roman politician ( † 74/73 BC)
  • Around 124 BC Marcus Livius Drusus the Younger ( † 91 BC)

Died

  • Hyspaosines, ruler of the Charakene (* 209 BC)
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