99 BC

Millennium:	1st millenniumBC
Centuries:	2nd centuryBC 1st centuryBC 1st century
Decades:	110sBC 100sBC 90sBC 80sBC 70sBC
Years:	102BC 101BC 100BC 99BC 98BC 97BC 96BC

99 BC in variouscalendars

Gregorian calendar	99 BC XCIX BC
Ab urbe condita	655
Ancient Egypt era	XXXIIIdynasty,225
- Pharaoh	Ptolemy X Alexander,9
Ancient Greek era	170thOlympiad,year 2
Assyrian calendar	4652
Balinese saka calendar	N/A
Bengali calendar	−691
Berber calendar	852
Buddhist calendar	446
Burmese calendar	−736
Byzantine calendar	5410–5411
Chinese calendar	Tân tịNăm (MetalSnake) 2599 or 2392 — to — Nhâm ngọ năm (WaterHorse) 2600 or 2393
Coptic calendar	−382 – −381
Discordian calendar	1068
Ethiopian calendar	−106 – −105
Hebrew calendar	3662–3663
Hindu calendars
-Vikram Samvat	−42 – −41
-Shaka Samvat	N/A
-Kali Yuga	3002–3003
Holocene calendar	9902
Iranian calendar	720 BP – 719 BP
Islamic calendar	742 BH – 741 BH
Javanese calendar	N/A
Julian calendar	N/A
Korean calendar	2235
Minguo calendar	2010 beforeROC Dân trước 2010 năm
Nanakshahi calendar	−1566
Seleucid era	213/214AG
Thai solar calendar	444–445
Tibetan calendar	Âm kim xà năm (female Iron-Snake) 28 or −353 or −1125 — to — Dương thủy mã năm (male Water-Horse) 29 or −352 or −1124

Year99 BCwas a year of thepre-Julian Roman calendar.At the time it was known as theYear of the Consulship of Antonius and Albinus(or, less frequently,year 655Ab urbe condita) and theSecond Year of Tianhan.The denomination 99 BC for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when theAnno Dominicalendar erabecame the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

Events

By place

Roman Republic

• Consuls:Aulus Postumius AlbinusandMarcus Antonius.

Asia

• Han-Xiongnu War

• The Han generalLi Guanglimarches west fromJiuquanwith 30,000 cavalrymen to attack theTuqi Kingof the Right in theTian ShanMountains. After an initial victory, the Han are surrounded, and they lose more than 20,000 men while breaking out of the encirclement.
• The Han generalsLu BodeandGongsun Aomarch into the Zhuoxie Mountains, but they encounter no Xiongnu forces and turn back.
• Autumn – The Han generalLi Lingleads 5000 crack infantry and a cavalry force fromJuyan Lakeinto the easternAltay Mountainsbut is pursued byQiedihou Chanyu.After a desperate fighting retreat across more than 500km of Xiongnu territory, the Han expedition runs out of arrows. Li Ling surrenders and his force disintegrates in the Tihan Mountains, about 50km from theGreat Wall of China.
• Emperor Wu of Hanhas the 'Grand Historian'Sima Qiancastrated after the latter argues in defense of Li Ling's surrender.

Births

• Lucretius,Latinprominent philosopher and poet (d. c.55 BC)