126 BC

Communication

Reports from an expedition to the West, from 138 to 125 bce and led by Zhang Qian of the Han dynasty in China, are among the many influences that lead to the establishment of the Silk Road, the trade corridor from China to the West. See also 53 bce Materials.

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Millennium:	1st millennium BC
Centuries:	3rd century BC – 2nd century BC – 1st century BC
Decades:	150s BC  140s BC  130s BC  – 120s BC –  110s BC  100s BC  90s BC
Years:	129 BC 128 BC 127 BC – 126 BC – 125 BC 124 BC 123 BC

126 BC by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments – Disestablishments v • d • e

126 BC in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	126 BC
Ab urbe condita	628
Armenian calendar	N/A
Bahá'í calendar	-1969 – -1968
Bengali calendar	-718
Berber calendar	825
Buddhist calendar	419
Burmese calendar	-763
Byzantine calendar	5383 – 5384
Chinese calendar	甲年 (2511/2571) — to — [[Sexagenary cycle|]]年 (2512/2572)
Coptic calendar	-409 – -408
Ethiopian calendar	-133 – -132
Hebrew calendar	3635 – 3636
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	-70 – -69
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	2976 – 2977
Holocene calendar	9875
Iranian calendar	747 BP – 746 BP
Islamic calendar	770 BH – 769 BH
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar	2208
Thai solar calendar	418
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Events

By place

Syria

• Tyre successfully revolts from the Seleucid Empire.
• Seleucus V Philometor succeeds his father Demetrius II as king of the Seleucid Empire. Due to his youth, his stepmother Cleopatra Thea acts as regent.

Births

Deaths

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