AD 124

"124 (year)" redirects here. For the year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar, see 124 BC.

Year 124 (CXXIV) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Glabrio and Flaccus (or, less frequently, year 877 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 124 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.

124 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	124 CXXIV
Ab urbe condita	877
Assyrian calendar	4874
Balinese saka calendar	45–46
Bengali calendar	−470 – −469
Berber calendar	1074
Buddhist calendar	668
Burmese calendar	−514
Byzantine calendar	5632–5633
Chinese calendar	癸亥年 (Water Pig) 2821 or 2614     — to — 甲子年 (Wood Rat) 2822 or 2615
Coptic calendar	−160 – −159
Discordian calendar	1290
Ethiopian calendar	116–117
Hebrew calendar	3884–3885
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	180–181
- Shaka Samvat	45–46
- Kali Yuga	3224–3225
Holocene calendar	10124
Iranian calendar	498 BP – 497 BP
Islamic calendar	513 BH – 512 BH
Javanese calendar	N/A
Julian calendar	124 CXXIV
Korean calendar	2457
Minguo calendar	1788 before ROC 民前1788年
Nanakshahi calendar	−1344
Seleucid era	435/436 AG
Thai solar calendar	666–667
Tibetan calendar	ཆུ་མོ་ཕག་ལོ་ (female Water-Boar) 250 or −131 or −903     — to — ཤིང་ཕོ་བྱི་བ་ལོ་ (male Wood-Rat) 251 or −130 or −902

Events

By place

Roman Empire

• January 1 – Gaius Bellicius Torquatus and Manius Acilius Glabrio begin the year as the new consuls, but the two are replaced in April.
• May – Aulus Larcius Macedo, the former Governor of Galatia; and Publius Ducenius Verres take office for four month as the suffect consuls to succeed Bellicius and Glabrio, and serve until the end of August.
• September – Gaius Valerius Severus and Gaius Julius Gallus replace consuls Larcius and Ducenius and serve until the end of the year.
• Emperor Hadrian begins to rebuild the Olympeion in Athens.
• Antinous becomes Hadrian's beloved companion on his journeys through the Roman Empire.
• During a voyage to Greece, Hadrian is initiated in the ancient rites known as the Eleusinian Mysteries.

Asia

• In northern India, Nahapana, ruler of the Scythians, is defeated and dies in battle while fighting against King Gautamiputra Satakarni. This defeat destroys the Scythian dynasty of the Western Kshatrapas.

Births

• Apuleius, Numidian novelist, writer, public speaker (approximate date)^[1]

Deaths

• Marcus Annius Verus, father of Marcus Aurelius
• Nahapana, ruler of the Scythians (approximate date)
• Sixtus I, bishop of Rome according to Roman Catholic tradition (possible date)^[2]