126 BC

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126 BC in various calendars
Gregorian calendar 126 BC
CXXVI BC
Ab urbe condita 628
Ancient Egypt era XXXIII dynasty, 198
- Pharaoh Ptolemy VIII Physcon, 20
Ancient Greek era 163rd Olympiad, year 3
Assyrian calendar 4625
Balinese saka calendar N/A
Bengali calendar −718
Berber calendar 825
Buddhist calendar 419
Burmese calendar −763
Byzantine calendar 5383–5384
Chinese calendar 甲寅年 (Wood  Tiger)
2572 or 2365
     to 
乙卯年 (Wood  Rabbit)
2573 or 2366
Coptic calendar −409 – −408
Discordian calendar 1041
Ethiopian calendar −133 – −132
Hebrew calendar 3635–3636
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat −69 – −68
 - Shaka Samvat N/A
 - Kali Yuga 2975–2976
Holocene calendar 9875
Iranian calendar 747 BP – 746 BP
Islamic calendar 770 BH – 769 BH
Javanese calendar N/A
Julian calendar N/A
Korean calendar 2208
Minguo calendar 2037 before ROC
民前2037年
Nanakshahi calendar −1593
Seleucid era 186/187 AG
Thai solar calendar 417–418
Tibetan calendar 阳木虎年
(male Wood-Tiger)
1 or −380 or −1152
     to 
阴木兔年
(female Wood-Rabbit)
2 or −379 or −1151

Year 126 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Lepidus and Orestes (or, less frequently, year 628 Ab urbe condita ) and the Third Year of Yuanshuo. The denomination 126 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.

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Syria

Xiongnu

  • Winter 127/6: The Xiongnu ruler Junchen Chanyu dies, and his younger brother Yizhixie, the Luli King of the Left (East), overthrows Junchen's son Yudan and sets himself up as the new Chanyu. Yudan flees to the Han and dies a few months later. [1]

China

  • Summer: In retaliation for the Han conquest of the Ordos Plateau in the previous year, the Xiongnu invade the province of Dai, kill its governor, Gong You, and capture over 1000 of its inhabitants.
  • Autumn: The Xiongnu cross into Yanmen and kill or capture over 1000 of the inhabitants. [2] [3]
  • Having used the Xiongnu civil war to escape his imprisonment, the diplomat Zhang Qian returns to China and reports on the lands to the west. [4]
  • To avoid the Xiongnu and Qiang of the north-west and west respectively, Emperor Wu begins a policy of exploring a possible route of contact with Daxia (Bactria) via India, sending envoys to establish diplomatic relations with and movement through the Dian Kingdom. Wu wishes to receive the submission of Daxia and other states in western Eurasia. [5]

Deaths

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References

  1. Qian, Sima. Records of the Grand Historian, Section: Xiongnu.
  2. Hung, Hing Ming (2020). The Magnificent Emperor Wu: China's Han Dynasty. p. 141. ISBN   978-1628944167.
  3. Qian, Sima. Records of the Grand Historian, Section: Xiongnu, Section: Wei Qing & Huo Qubing.
  4. Hung, Hing Ming (2020). The Magnificent Emperor Wu: China's Han Dynasty. p. 146. ISBN   978-1628944167.
  5. Hung, Hing Ming (2020). The Magnificent Emperor Wu: China's Han Dynasty. pp. 150–151. ISBN   978-1628944167.