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 The Roman consul Gaius Marius carries out a comprehensive army reform .
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 Aristobulus I from the Hasmonean dynasty succeeds John Hyrcanus I as King of Judea .
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| 104 BC Chr. In other calendars | |
| Buddhist calendar | 440/441 (southern Buddhism); 439/440 (alternative calculation according to Buddha's Parinirvana ) |
| Chinese calendar | 43rd (44th) cycle , year of the Fire Ox丁丑 ( at the beginning of the year Fire Rat 丙子) |
| Greek calendar | 4th year of the 168th / 1st Year of the 169th Olympiad |
| Jewish calendar | 3657/58 |
| Roman calendar | from urbe condita DCL (650) |
| Seleucid era | Babylon: 207/208; Syria: 208/209 |
Events
Roman Empire
Jugurtha - Coin portrait with royal armband
- Gaius Marius takes over the post of consul in the Roman Empire for the second time . He fills it out together with Gaius Flavius Fimbria . As early as January 1st, he led a triumphal procession in Rome after the victory in the Jugurthin War , in which the defeated Numidian ruler Jugurtha , who was strangled in prison a few days later, was presented.
- Lucius Cassius Longinus and Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus are common tribunes of the Roman Republic .
- The Roman consul Gaius Marius carries out a comprehensive army reform . The militia army becomes a vigorous professional army. The problem of caring for the veterans remains unsolved. Since this is guaranteed by the respective generals , the veterans consider themselves to be part of his clientele and thus form a power factor that was particularly important in the Roman civil wars .
Empire of the Hasmoneans
- Aristobulus I from the Hasmonean dynasty succeeds John Hyrcanus I as King of Judea .
Born
- around 104 BC Chr .: Marcus Valerius Messalla Niger , Roman politician († around 50 BC )
Died
- Dong Zhongshu , Chinese philosopher (* 179 BC )
- John Hyrcanus I , ethnarch and high priest of Judea
- Turpilius , Roman comedy poet
- around 104 BC Chr .: Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus , Roman politician