Events from 121 BC

Death of Gaius Gracchus - 3,000 supporters killed, first senatus consultum ultimum (emergency decree), political violence normalized

Battle of Vindalium - Rome defeats Arverni King Bituitus despite his war elephants, secures wine trade route through Provincia

Opimian vintage - legendary year, wine still drunk 200 years later, Pliny reports tasting 160-year-old Opimian