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This page concerns the year 115 of the Julian Proleptic calendar.

Events

7 September 116 BC (January 639 of the Roman calendar): beginning in Rome of the Consulate of Marcus Aemilius Scaurus and Marcus Caecilius Metellus.
Caecilius Metellus is sent to Sardinia to suppress an insurrection. He remained there until 111 B.C. when he obtained the honors of triumph. An inscription on a bronze table found in Esterzili mentions its mediation to settle a border agreement between the Galilenses and the Campani Patulcenses.
Scaurus passed a sumptuous law prohibiting the use of fattened loins, shellfish and imported birds, and a law on the rights of freemen. He obtained the honours of triumph over the Celts of the Carni tribe.
Marius is elected a predator; Accused of electoral corruption, he is acquitted.
Roman citizens.
Before 6 April: against his will, Cleopatra reigns over Egypt together with his son Ptolemy Sôter , or Lathyre (142/80 BC).
Ptolemy Sôter repudiated his sister and wife Cleopatra , for she refused to recognize the precedence of their mother, then married Cleopatra V Selene. Cleopatra took refuge in Cyprus and then in Syria, where she married King Seleucid Antiochos IX about 113.

The Parthians hunt the Bactrian Sakas.
Trade Treaty between the Parthians and China of Han.
Beginning of the reign of Antialkides, Indo-Greek king of Taxila (v. 115-95 B.C.).

Births in 115 BC

Crassus, general and Roman politician.
Lucullus, statesman and Roman general.

Deaths
Quintus Caecilius Metellus Macedonicus, Roman general and politician.

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