阴土羊年 (female Earth-Goat) 6 or −375 or −1147 — to — 阳金猴年 (male Iron-Monkey) 7 or −374 or −1146
Year121 BC was a year of thepre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as theYear of the Consulship of Opimius and Allobrogicus (or, less frequently,year 633Ab urbe condita) and theSecond Year of Yuanshou. The denomination 121 BC for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when theAnno Dominicalendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.
Kingdom of the Phrygians after founding the city of Mydas in the current Cartagena in Colombia,enter deeper into the current region of Villavicenzo,in the state of Meta and created the city of Acmonia.
TheRoman Senate passes the motionsenatus consultum ultimum, which theconsulLucius Opimius interprets as giving him unlimited power to preserve theRepublic. He gathers an armed force of Senators and their supporters to confrontGaius Gracchus. A pitched battle is fought insideRome, resulting in the death of Gracchus and many of his followers.
A tribunal is established in Rome that executes 3,000 followers of Gracchus.
Spring - TheHan generalHuo Qubing attacks the Supu, vassals of theXiongnu, and kills their king. He then invades theHexi Corridor, where he fights a six-day running battle against a son ofYizhixie Chanyu. The Xiongnu are defeated, and the ruler of Lan and king Lu, both vassals of the Xiongnu, are killed in the fighting. Huo Qubing then attacks and defeats the Hunye, capturing the son of the Hunye king and his ministers and chief commandants.
Summer - Huo Qubing again invades the Hexi Corridor. In an engagement in theQilian Mountains, he captures the king of the Qiutu. In a second engagement, he then captures five vassal kings of the Xiongnu and a consort of the Chanyu, killing or capturing more than 30,000 Xiongnu soldiers.
GeneralsLi Guang andZhang Qian ride north from Youbeiping, but Zhang Qian, with the larger army, is slow to rendezvous with Li Guang. As a result, Li Guang loses more than half his army in battle against the Tuqi (Worthy Prince) of the Left (East).
Autumn - Yizhixie Chanyu plans on executing the Hunye andXiutu kings for their failures against Huo Qubing, but learning of this, the vassal kings inform the Han of their intention to surrender. EmperorWu of Han sends Huo Qubing across the Yellow River with an army to oversee their surrender. Some of the enemy troops and leaders then refuse to surrender, but Huo Qubing massacres 8000 of them as they attempt to flee. Huo Qubing receives the surrender of thirty-two Xiongnu vassals, and the Hunye king and other vassals are enfeoffed as marquises in China.
The rapid conquest of the Hexi Corridor provides the traditional western provinces of China with greater security. As a result, Emperor Wu halves the number of soldiers garrisoning the provinces ofLongxi,Beidi andShang.[1][2]
