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112 BC in various calendars
Hindu calendars
Gregorian calendar	112 BC CXII BC
Ab urbe condita	642
Ancient Egypt era	XXXIII dynasty, 212
- Pharaoh	Ptolemy IX Lathyros, 5
Ancient Greek Olympiad (summer)	167th Olympiad (victor )1
Assyrian calendar	4639
Balinese saka calendar	N/A
Bengali calendar	−705 – −704
Berber calendar	839
Buddhist calendar	433
Burmese calendar	−749
Byzantine calendar	5397–5398
Chinese calendar	戊辰年 (Earth Dragon) 2586 or 2379 — to — 己巳年 (Earth Snake) 2587 or 2380
Coptic calendar	−395 – −394
Discordian calendar	1055
Ethiopian calendar	−119 – −118
Hebrew calendar	3649–3650
- Vikram Samvat	−55 – −54
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	2989–2990
Holocene calendar	9889
Iranian calendar	733 BP – 732 BP
Islamic calendar	756 BH – 755 BH
Javanese calendar	N/A
Julian calendar	N/A
Korean calendar	2222
Minguo calendar	2023 before ROC 民前2023年
Nanakshahi calendar	−1579
Seleucid era	200/201 AG
Thai solar calendar	431–432
Tibetan calendar	ས་ཕོ་འབྲུག་ལོ་ (male Earth-Dragon) 15 or −366 or −1138 — to — ས་མོ་སྦྲུལ་ལོ་ (female Earth-Snake) 16 or −365 or −1137

Year 112 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Drusus and Caesoninus (or, less frequently, year 642 Ab urbe condita ) and the Fifth Year of Yuanding. The denomination 112 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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Roman Republic

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The Roman Senate declares war against Jugurtha following the Siege of Cirta (ends 105 BC).

Asia

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Han-Nanyue War

Lü Jia, Premier of the Han vassal state of Nanyue, opposes increased Han control and refuses to appear before the king of Nanyue and the envoys of Han. He rebels against the Han when Emperor Wu sends an armed force of 2,000 men to kill him and his allies. Lü kills king Zhao Xing and his regent, Queen Dowager Jiu, massacres the Han force, and installs Zhao Jiande as king.^[1]
Autumn – Emperor Wu launches a major invasion of Nanyue, sending five riverine fleets to invade under Lu Bode, Yang Pu and three former Yue generals.^[2]
The king of Dongyue, Zou Yushan, sends an army to link up with Yang Pu, but he secretly sends an envoy to Zhao Jiande and halts the transport fleet to await the war's outcome, claiming that the weather is preventing its advance.^[3]

Emperor Wu executes his favourite necromancer Luan Da for fraud.^[4]

Deaths

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Adherbal, king of Numidia
Cleopatra IV, queen of Egypt
Zhao Xing, ruler of Nanyue

References

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^ Hung, Hing Ming (2020). The Magnificent Emperor Wu: China's Han Dynasty. pp. 179–182. ISBN 978-1628944167.
^ Hung, Hing Ming (2020). The Magnificent Emperor Wu: China's Han Dynasty. Algora. p. 182. ISBN 978-1628944167.
^ Hung, Hing Ming (2020). The Magnificent Emperor Wu: China's Han Dynasty. Algora. p. 186. ISBN 978-1628944167.
^ Hung, Hing Ming (2020). The Magnificent Emperor Wu: China's Han Dynasty. Algora. p. 174. ISBN 978-1628944167.

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