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Year '''107 BC''' was a year of the [[Roman calendar|pre-Julian Roman calendar]]. At the time it was known as the '''Year of the Consulship of Ravilla{{Citation needed|date=July 2024}} and Marius''' (or, less frequently, '''year 647 ''[[Ab urbe condita]]''''') and the '''Fourth Year of Yuanfeng'''. The denomination 107 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 ==
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=== By place ===

==== Crimea ====
* The uprising of [[Saumachus]] against [[Mithridates VI]] in the [[Bosporan Kingdom]].

==== Roman Republic ====
* [[Gaius Marius]], to whom the putative [[Marian reforms]] of the Roman army are commonly attributed, arrives in North Africa to lead the war against [[Jugurtha]], with a young [[quaestor]] named [[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]] as a subordinate.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Dillon |first1=Matthew |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7joTEAAAQBAJ&dq=Marian+Reforms&pg=PT123 |title=Religion & Classical Warfare: The Roman Republic |last2=Matthew |first2=Christopher |date=2020 |publisher=Pen and Sword Military |isbn=978-1473889699 |language=en}}</ref>
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*In the course of the migration of the [[Cimbri|Cimbrians]] and [[Teutons]], a Germanic-Celtic confederation including the Helvetic tribes of the [[Tigurini|Tigurinians]] and Tougenians, under the leadership of [[Divico]], ambush and defeat the Roman legions under [[Lucius Cassius Longinus (consul 107 BC)|Lucius Cassius Longinus]], [[Lucius Calpurnius Piso Caesoninus (consul 112 BC)|Lucius Caesoninus]] and Gaius Popillius Laenas at the [[Battle of Burdigala]] on the Garonne. As a result, the town of [[Toulouse|Tolosa]], populated by the [[Volcae]], revolts against the Roman Empire.
== Deaths ==

* [[Lucius Cassius Longinus (consul 107 BC)|Lucius Cassius Longinus]]<ref>Lynda Telford, ''Sulla A Dictator Reconsidered'', p.43</ref>

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