116 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:	119 BC 118 BC 117 BC – 116 BC – 115 BC 114 BC 113 BC

116 BC in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	116 BC CXV BC
Ab urbe condita	638
Ancient Egypt era	XXXIII dynasty, 208
- Pharaoh	Ptolemy IX Lathyros, 1
Ancient Greek era	166th Olympiad (victor)¹
Assyrian calendar	4635
Bengali calendar	−708
Berber calendar	835
Buddhist calendar	429
Burmese calendar	−753
Byzantine calendar	5393–5394
Chinese calendar	甲子年 (Wood Rat) 2581 or 2521     — to — 乙丑年 (Wood Ox) 2582 or 2522
Coptic calendar	−399 – −398
Discordian calendar	1051
Ethiopian calendar	−123 – −122
Hebrew calendar	3645–3646
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	−59 – −58
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	2986–2987
Holocene calendar	9885
Iranian calendar	737 BP – 736 BP
Islamic calendar	760 BH – 759 BH
Julian calendar	N/A
Korean calendar	2218
Minguo calendar	2027 before ROC 民前2027年
Seleucid era	196/197 AG
Thai solar calendar	427–428

Year 116 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Geta and Eburnus (or, less frequently, year 638 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 116 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

Egypt

• June 26 – At the death of Ptolemy VIII Physcon, Cleopatra III has chosen her younger son Ptolemy X Alexander as co-regent, but the Alexandrians forced her to bring Ptolemy IX from Cyprus, of which he is governor.
• Ptolemy IX Philometor Soter II Lathyros becomes king of Egypt and claims the throne.

Births

• Marcus Terentius Varro, Roman scholar (d. 27 BC)

Deaths

• Cleopatra II of Egypt (b. c. 185 BC)
• June 26 – Ptolemy VIII of Egypt (b. c. 182 BC)