126 BC

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

Millennium:	1st millennium BC
Centuries:	3rd century BC; 2nd century BC ; 1st century BC;
Decades:	140s BC; 130s BC; 120s BC ; 110s BC; 100s BC;
Years:	129 BC; 128 BC; 127 BC; 126 BC ; 125 BC; 124 BC; 123 BC;

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.

Events

By place

Syria

Tyre successfully revolts from the Seleucid Empire.
Seleucus V Philometor succeeds his father Demetrius II as king of the Seleucid Empire. Due to his youth, his stepmother Cleopatra Thea acts as regent.

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

Phraates II, king of the Parthian Empire
Wang Zhi, Chinese empress of the Han dynasty (b. 173 BC)

References

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

[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.

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