110 B.C.

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This page concerns the year 110 of the Julian Proleptic calendar.

Events
25 September 111 BC (January 644 of the Roman calendar): beginning in Rome of the Consulate of Spurius Postumius Albinus and Marcus Minucius Rufus.
Consul Minucius Rufus is sent to fight the Scordists in Macedonia.
Massiva, a cousin of Jugurtha, supported by the People's Party and Consul Spurius Postumius Albinus, claims the Numidia crown from the Senate. He's murdered. Suspicions are on Jugurtha and the Senate orders him to leave the city. He launches before leaving: "City for sale! You will perish if you find someone to buy."

Around 110 B.C.: beginning of the reign of Bocchus, king of Maurétania (end in 80 B.C.).
Around 110/109 B.C.: Alexander, governor of Cyprus, temporarily expels his brother Ptolemy IX from the throne of Egypt and takes his place as Ptolemy X Alexander (late spring 108 B.C.).

Births

Philodemus of Gadara, philosopher (approximate date)
Rhodes Geminos, mathematician (approximate date)

Deaths
Cornelia, wife of Gracchus (163 B.C.), daughter of Scipion the African and mother of the Gracques (born 189 B.C.).
Panetios of Rhodes, Stoic philosopher (born 170 BC in Rhodes).

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