104 BC

Year 104 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Marius and Fimbria (or, less frequently, year 650 Ab urbe condita) and the First Year of Taichu. The denomination 104 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.

Millennium:	1st millennium BC
Centuries:	3rd century BC 2nd century BC 1st century BC
Decades:	120s BC 110s BC 100s BC 90s BC 80s BC
Years:	107 BC 106 BC 105 BC 104 BC 103 BC 102 BC 101 BC

104 BC in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	104 BC CIV BC
Ab urbe condita	650
Ancient Egypt era	XXXIII dynasty, 220
- Pharaoh	Ptolemy X Alexander, 4
Ancient Greek era	169th Olympiad (victor)¹
Assyrian calendar	4647
Balinese saka calendar	N/A
Bengali calendar	−696
Berber calendar	847
Buddhist calendar	441
Burmese calendar	−741
Byzantine calendar	5405–5406
Chinese calendar	丙子年 (Fire Rat) 2594 or 2387     — to — 丁丑年 (Fire Ox) 2595 or 2388
Coptic calendar	−387 – −386
Discordian calendar	1063
Ethiopian calendar	−111 – −110
Hebrew calendar	3657–3658
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	−47 – −46
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	2997–2998
Holocene calendar	9897
Iranian calendar	725 BP – 724 BP
Islamic calendar	747 BH – 746 BH
Javanese calendar	N/A
Julian calendar	N/A
Korean calendar	2230
Minguo calendar	2015 before ROC 民前2015年
Nanakshahi calendar	−1571
Seleucid era	208/209 AG
Thai solar calendar	439–440
Tibetan calendar	阳火鼠年 (male Fire-Rat) 23 or −358 or −1130     — to — 阴火牛年 (female Fire-Ox) 24 or −357 or −1129

Events

By place

Roman Republic

• Rome enacts a state of emergency, as the way to Italy lays open to the Germanic invaders. Gaius Marius, the conqueror of Jugurtha, is elected consul for the second time. He celebrates his triumph over Jugurtha, who is led in the procession and thrown into the Tullianum where he dies of starvation.
• Second Servile War: Athenion starts a slave rebellion in Segesta (Sicily).

Judea

• Aristobulus I succeeds John Hyrcanus, becoming king and high priest of Judea, until 103 BC.

Asia

• War of the Heavenly Horses: Emperor Wu of Han sends an army of 6000 cavalrymen and 10,000 convicts under Li Guangli to attack Dayuan in modern Kyrgyzstan after Wugua, the king of Dayuan, refuses to send the Han any of the prized horses of Dayuan and, following a contentious meeting with the Han diplomats, has a vassal king kill the diplomats and seize their goods. The Han expeditionary force proceeds with difficulty, marching through arid regions and facing hostile cities.

Births

• Julia, mother of Mark Antony
• Servilia, mistress of Julius Caesar

Deaths

• Dong Zhongshu, Chinese scholar who promoted Confucianism at the central court of the Han dynasty (b. 179 BC)
• Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus, Roman consul and general
• John Hyrcanus, prince and high priest of Judea (b. 164 BC)
• Jugurtha, king of Numidia (execution by Rome) (b. c. 160 BC)