118 BC

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  90s BC  80s BC
Years:	121 BC 120 BC 119 BC – 118 BC – 117 BC 116 BC 115 BC

118 BC in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	118 BC
Ab urbe condita	636
Ancient Egypt era	XXXIII dynasty, 206
- Pharaoh	Ptolemy VIII Physcon, 28
Ancient Greek era	165th Olympiad, year 3
Assyrian calendar	4633
Bengali calendar	−710
Berber calendar	833
Buddhist calendar	427
Burmese calendar	−755
Byzantine calendar	5391–5392
Chinese calendar	壬戌年 (Water Dog) 2579 or 2519     — to — 癸亥年 (Water Pig) 2580 or 2520
Coptic calendar	−401 – −400
Discordian calendar	1049
Ethiopian calendar	−125 – −124
Hebrew calendar	3643–3644
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	−61 – −60
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	2984–2985
Holocene calendar	9883
Iranian calendar	739 BP – 738 BP
Islamic calendar	762 BH – 761 BH
Julian calendar	N/A
Korean calendar	2216
Minguo calendar	2029 before ROC 民前2029年
Seleucid era	194/195 AG
Thai solar calendar	425–426

Year 118 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Cato and Rex (or, less frequently, year 636 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 118 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

Roman Republic

• The Roman colony of Narbo Martius is founded in Gallia Transalpina.
• The second Dalmatian war ends with victory for Rome and L. Caecilius Metellus assumes the surname Delmaticus

Numidia

• Micipsa dies and Numidia, following the king's wish, is divided into three parts, a third each ruled by Micipsa's own sons, Adherbal and Hiempsal I, and the king's adopted son, Jugurtha.

Births

• Lucullus, Roman consul (d. 56 BC)

Deaths

• Micipsa, king of Numidia

References