100 BC

This page lists news articles and events for the year 100 BC.

Events that happen on the specified date are listed under Events: entries. News articles that were published on the specified date are listed under News: entries. Events that only happened in fiction on the specified date are listed under Fiction: entries and are written in italics.

Centuries:	3rd Century BC		2nd Century BC			1st Century BC
Decades:	130s BC	120s BC	110s BC	100s BC	90s BC	80s BC	70s BC
Years:	103 BC	102 BC	101 BC	100 BC	99 BC	98 BC	97 BC

---

Undated

Roman Republic

• Consuls: Lucius Valerius Flaccus (princeps senatus 86 BC), Gaius Marius (Marius's sixth consulship).
• Manius Aquillius celebrates an ovation for victories in the Second Servile War.
• Lucius Appuleius Saturninus, a tribune, passes a law to redistribute land to military veterans. The law requires that all senators swear to abide by it. Quintus Caecilus Metellus Numidicus refuses and is exiled. He goes to Rhodes to study philosophy.
• Saturninus stands for consul. A rival candidate, Gaius Memmius, is found murdered by agents of Saturninus, who is declared a public enemy by the Senate. Marius, as consul, defeats his former ally in battle in the Forum. Saturninus and his followers surrender on condition that their lives are spared, but they are stoned to death with roof tiles by renegade senators.
• The building of the Sanctuary of Fortuna Primigenia, Palestrina, Italy, is begun. The model of it is now kept at the Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Italy (approximate date).

Asia Minor

• Tigranes II of Armenia is placed on Armenian throne by the Parthians in exchange for the cession of "seventy valleys". (approximate date)

Judea

• The deuterocanonical books of Maccabees1 and 2 Maccabees are written.

Middle East

• Elephants become extinct from Middle East by this date.

Asia

• Peasant revolts under Emperor Wu of Han. The Great Wall of China is extended out into the Gobi Desert, and sections of the wall are detached with signalling towers.
• Gandhara and Punjab region ruled by the Indo-Greek king Demetrios III.
• History of China is written by Sima Qian (approximate date).

America

• Mural room in the Maya pyramid at San Bartolo, Guatemala, painted.

• Olmec III period ends in Southeastern Mexico.

Births

• Birth of Julius Caesar, Roman general and politician (or possibly born in 102 BC) (died in 44 BC)
• Birth of Titus Labienus, Caesar's chief lieutenant in the conquest of Gaul (d. 45 BC)

Deaths

• Death of Cornelia Africana, widow of Tiberius Gracchus (b. c. 190 BC)
• Death of Lucius Appuleius Saturninus, Roman politician
• Death of Theodosius of Bithynia, Greek astronomer and mathematician (b. c. 160 BC)

---

January

February

March

April

May

June

July

• July 13
  • Birth of Julius Caesar, Roman general and politician (or possibly born in 102 BC) (died in 44 BC)

August

September

October

November

December

• Saturninus stands for consul. A rival candidate, Gaius Memmius, is found murdered by agents of Saturninus, who is declared a public enemy by the Senate. Marius, as consul, defeats his former ally in battle in the Forum. Saturninus and his followers surrender on condition that their lives are spared, but they are stoned to death with roof tiles by renegade senators.