103 BC

Millennium:	1st millennium BC
Centuries:	3rd century BC – 2nd century BC – 1st century BC
Decades:	130s BC  120s BC  110s BC  – 100s BC –  90s BC  80s BC  70s BC
Years:	106 BC 105 BC 104 BC – 103 BC – 102 BC 101 BC 100 BC

103 BC in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	103 BC CII BC
Ab urbe condita	651
Ancient Egypt era	XXXIII dynasty, 221
- Pharaoh	Ptolemy X Alexander, 5
Ancient Greek era	169th Olympiad, year 2
Assyrian calendar	4648
Bengali calendar	−695
Berber calendar	848
Buddhist calendar	442
Burmese calendar	−740
Byzantine calendar	5406–5407
Chinese calendar	丁丑年 (Fire Ox) 2594 or 2534     — to — 戊寅年 (Earth Tiger) 2595 or 2535
Coptic calendar	−386 – −385
Discordian calendar	1064
Ethiopian calendar	−110 – −109
Hebrew calendar	3658–3659
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	−46 – −45
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	2999–3000
Holocene calendar	9898
Iranian calendar	724 BP – 723 BP
Islamic calendar	746 BH – 745 BH
Julian calendar	N/A
Korean calendar	2231
Minguo calendar	2014 before ROC 民前2014年
Seleucid era	209/210 AG
Thai solar calendar	440–441

Year 103 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Marius and Orestes (or, less frequently, year 651 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 103 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

Roman Republic

• Gaius Marius prepares a campaign against the Ambrones and Teutones under king Teutobod who are settled in Gaul.
• Tryphon and Athenion lead the Second Servile War in Sicily.

Judea

• Alexander Jannaeus succeeds his brother Aristobulus I as king and high priest of Judea, until 76 BC.

Deaths

• Aristobulus I, king of Judea.