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Year 131 BC was a year of the
pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Mucianus and Flaccus (or, less frequently, year 623 ''
Ab urbe condita
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'') and the Fourth Year of Yuanguang. The denomination 131 BC for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the
Anno Domini
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calendar era
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became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.
Events
By place
Roman Republic
* Aristonicus of Pergamon leads an uprising against Rome
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, and consul
Consul (abbrev. ''cos.''; Latin plural ''consules'') was the title of one of the two chief magistrates of the Roman Republic, and subsequently also an important title under the Roman Empire. The title was used in other European city-states thro ...
Publius Licinius Crassus Mucianius is killed in the fighting.
* The Roman censor
The censor was a magistrate in ancient Rome who was responsible for maintaining the census, supervising public morality, and overseeing certain aspects of the government's finances.
Established under the Roman Republic, power of the censor was lim ...
Quintus Caecilius Metellus Macedonicus attempts to remove the tribune
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Gaius Atinius Labeo Macerio from the Senate
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, the angry Atinius drags him to be thrown off the Tarpeian Rock, and Metellus is only saved by the intervention of other senators.
* The tribune Gaius Papirius Carbo passes a measure allowing the use of secret ballot
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s in legislative assemblies.
* For the first time in Roman history, both censors are plebeian
In ancient Rome, the plebeians or plebs were the general body of free Roman citizens who were not patricians, as determined by the census, or in other words "commoners". Both classes were hereditary.
Etymology
The precise origins of the gro ...
s (Metellus and Quintus Pompeius).
* First Acta Diurna
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appears in Rome around this time.
Deaths
References
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