// Workers AI · dad joke modeWhy was 114 BC a great year? It was a century ahead.

114 BC in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	114 BC CXIV BC
Ab urbe condita	640
Ancient Egypt era	XXXIII dynasty, 210
- Pharaoh	Ptolemy IX Lathyros, 3
Ancient Greek Olympiad (summer)	166th Olympiad, year 3
Assyrian calendar	4637
Balinese saka calendar	N/A
Bengali calendar	−707 – −706
Berber calendar	837
Buddhist calendar	431
Burmese calendar	−751
Byzantine calendar	5395–5396
Chinese calendar	丙寅年 (Fire Tiger) 2584 or 2377     — to — 丁卯年 (Fire Rabbit) 2585 or 2378
Coptic calendar	−397 – −396
Discordian calendar	1053
Ethiopian calendar	−121 – −120
Hebrew calendar	3647–3648
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	−57 – −56
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	2987–2988
Holocene calendar	9887
Iranian calendar	735 BP – 734 BP
Islamic calendar	758 BH – 757 BH
Javanese calendar	N/A
Julian calendar	N/A
Korean calendar	2220
Minguo calendar	2025 before ROC 民前2025年
Nanakshahi calendar	−1581
Seleucid era	198/199 AG
Thai solar calendar	429–430
Tibetan calendar	མེ་ཕོ་སྟག་ལོ་ (male Fire-Tiger) 13 or −368 or −1140     — to — མེ་མོ་ཡོས་ལོ་ (female Fire-Hare) 14 or −367 or −1139

Year 114 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Balbus and Cato (or, less frequently, year 640 Ab urbe condita) and the Third Year of Yuanding. The denomination 114 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

• The Scordisci defeat Gaius Porcius Cato
• Horos, son of Haruotes, a resident of the temple of Isis in Egypt, attacked a worshiper at the temple.
• Silk Road routes opened to traders and merchants, exporting goods from east to west.

Births

• Lucius Orbilius Pupillus, Roman grammarian and writer
• Publius Cornelius Lentulus Sura, Roman consul (d. 63 BC)
• Quintus Hortensius, Roman consul and orator (d. 50 BC)

Deaths

• Zhang Qian, Chinese explorer and diplomat (b. 195 BC)