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118 BC in various calendars
Hindu calendars
Gregorian calendar	118 BC CXVIII BC
Ab urbe condita	636
Ancient Egypt era	XXXIII dynasty, 206
- Pharaoh	Ptolemy VIII Physcon, 28
Ancient Greek Olympiad (summer)	165th Olympiad, year 3
Assyrian calendar	4633
Balinese saka calendar	N/A
Bengali calendar	−711 – −710
Berber calendar	833
Buddhist calendar	427
Burmese calendar	−755
Byzantine calendar	5391–5392
Chinese calendar	壬戌年 (Water Dog) 2580 or 2373 — to — 癸亥年 (Water Pig) 2581 or 2374
Coptic calendar	−401 – −400
Discordian calendar	1049
Ethiopian calendar	−125 – −124
Hebrew calendar	3643–3644
- Vikram Samvat	−61 – −60
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	2983–2984
Holocene calendar	9883
Iranian calendar	739 BP – 738 BP
Islamic calendar	762 BH – 761 BH
Javanese calendar	N/A
Julian calendar	N/A
Korean calendar	2216
Minguo calendar	2029 before ROC 民前2029年
Nanakshahi calendar	−1585
Seleucid era	194/195 AG
Thai solar calendar	425–426
Tibetan calendar	ཆུ་ཕོ་ཁྱི་ལོ་ (male Water-Dog) 9 or −372 or −1144 — to — ཆུ་མོ་ཕག་ལོ་ (female Water-Boar) 10 or −371 or −1143

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 ) and the Fifth Year of Yuanshou. 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.

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Roman Republic

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The Roman colony of Narbo Martius is founded in Gallia Transalpina.^[1]^[2]
The Second Dalmatian War ends with victory for Rome. Lucius Caecilius Metellus assumes the surname Delmaticus.

Numidia

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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.

China

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Emperor Wu of Han secretly executes his favourite necromancer Shao Weng for fraud.

Births

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Lucius Licinius Lucullus, Roman consul (d. 56 BC)

Deaths

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Marcus Porcius Cato, Roman consul and orator
Micipsa, king of Numidia (approximate date)

References

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^ Drinkwater, John (2012). "Narbo". The Oxford Classical Dictionary (4th ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780191735257 . Retrieved December 21, 2025.
^ Everett-Heath, John. "Narbonne". Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Place Names (6th ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780191905636 . Retrieved December 21, 2025.

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