{{Use mdy dates|date=February 2011}} {{Year nav|-123}} {{BC year in topic|123}} __NOTOC__ Year '''123 BC''' was a year of the [[Roman calendar|pre-Julian Roman calendar]]. At the time it was known as the '''Year of the Consulship of Balearicus and Flamininus''' (or, less frequently, '''year 631 ''[[Ab urbe condita]]''''') and the '''Sixth Year of Yuanshuo'''. The denomination 123 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.
== Events == <onlyinclude>
=== By place === ==== Roman Republic ==== * [[Gaius Gracchus]] elected [[Roman Republic|Roman]] [[tribune]] for the first time. He waits until after his re-election the following year before pushing forward the various civil and agrarian reforms that his [[Tiberius Gracchus|brother]] championed in [[133 BC]]. * [[Aix-en-Provence]] founded under the name of ''Aquae Sextiae'' by the [[Roman consul]] [[Gaius Sextius Calvinus (consul 124 BC)|Sextius Calvinus]]. * [[Quintus Caecilius Metellus Balearicus|Quintus Caecilius Metellus]] conquers the [[Balearic Islands]] for Rome, for which he earns the agnomen "Balearicus." He settles 3,000 Roman and Iberian colonists on the islands and founds the cities of [[Palma, Majorca|Palma]] and [[Alcúdia|Pollentia]].
==== China ==== * Spring: The [[Han dynasty|Han]] General-in-Chief [[Wei Qing]] launches two invasions of Xiongnu territory from Dingxiang, defeating two Xiongnu armies and killing or capturing several thousand of the enemy. :* During the second expedition, the force under Su Jian and [[Zhao Xin (general)|Zhao Xin]] is surrounded and almost entirely destroyed by the army of [[Yizhixie Chanyu]]. Zhao Xin defects to the Chanyu.<ref>{{cite book|first=Hing Ming|last= Hung|title=The Magnificent Emperor Wu: China's Han Dynasty|year= 2020|isbn=978-1628944167|pages= 158–159}}</ref> :* For these two campaigns, [[Emperor Wu of Han]] orders Wei Qing to make his eighteen-year-old nephew [[Huo Qubing]] the commander of a force of 800 cavalry. Raiding deep into enemy territory, Huo's force kills or captures a Xiongnu Prime Minister and a Household Administrator, kills the Marquis of Jiruo (an elder relative of Yizhixie Chanyu), and captures the Chanyu's uncle Luogubi.<ref>{{cite book|first=Hing Ming|last= Hung|title=The Magnificent Emperor Wu: China's Han Dynasty|year= 2020|isbn=978-1628944167|pages= 159–160}}</ref> * A conspiracy led by [[Liu An]], king of [[Huainan]], is discovered. Liu An commits suicide, and his queen and crown prince are executed. Huainan becomes Jiujiang Prefecture.<ref>{{cite book|first=Hing Ming|last= Hung|title=The Magnificent Emperor Wu: China's Han Dynasty|year= 2020|isbn=978-1628944167|pages= 151–158}}</ref> </onlyinclude>
== Deaths == * [[Alexander II Zabinas]], king of the [[Seleucid Empire]]
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