138 BC
| Millennium: | 1st millennium BC |
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| Gregorian calendar | 138 BC CXXXVII BC |
| Ab urbe condita | 616 |
| Ancient Egypt era | XXXIII dynasty, 186 |
| - Pharaoh | Ptolemy VIII Physcon, 8 |
| Ancient Greek era | 160th Olympiad, year 3 |
| Assyrian calendar | 4613 |
| Balinese saka calendar | N/A |
| Bengali calendar | −730 |
| Berber calendar | 813 |
| Buddhist calendar | 407 |
| Burmese calendar | −775 |
| Byzantine calendar | 5371–5372 |
| Chinese calendar | 壬寅年 (Water Tiger) 2559 or 2499 — to — 癸卯年 (Water Rabbit) 2560 or 2500 |
| Coptic calendar | −421 – −420 |
| Discordian calendar | 1029 |
| Ethiopian calendar | −145 – −144 |
| Hebrew calendar | 3623–3624 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | −81 – −80 |
| - Shaka Samvat | N/A |
| - Kali Yuga | 2963–2964 |
| Holocene calendar | 9863 |
| Iranian calendar | 759 BP – 758 BP |
| Islamic calendar | 782 BH – 781 BH |
| Javanese calendar | N/A |
| Julian calendar | N/A |
| Korean calendar | 2196 |
| Minguo calendar | 2049 before ROC 民前2049年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | −1605 |
| Seleucid era | 174/175 AG |
| Thai solar calendar | 405–406 |
| Tibetan calendar | 阳水虎年 (male Water-Tiger) −11 or −392 or −1164 — to — 阴水兔年 (female Water-Rabbit) −10 or −391 or −1163 |
Year 138 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Serapio and Callaicus (or, less frequently, year 616 Ab urbe condita) and the Third Year of Jianyuan. The denomination 138 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 Empire[]
Asia Minor[]
- Attalus III succeeds Attalus II as Attalid king of Pergamon
Egypt[]
- revolts.
Syria[]
- Antiochus VII expels Diodotus Tryphon.
- Tryphon sacks Beirut
Parthia[]
- Phraates II becomes emperor of Parthia.
China[]
- Grand Empress Dowager Dou, the grandmother of Emperor Wu of Han, purges the high administration of officials to consolidate her power. Among those dismissed are Prime Minister Dou Yong and her own half-brother, the General-in-Chief Tian Fen. Two of the young emperor's closest advisors, Zhao Wan and Wang Zang, are arrested and commit suicide.[1]
By topic[]
Arts and sciences[]
- Hymn to Apollo is written and inscribed on stone in Delphi; it is the earliest surviving notated music, in a substantial and legible fragment, in the western world.
Births[]
- Lucius Cornelius Sulla, Roman general and statesman (d. 78 BC)[2]
- Phaedrus the Epicurean, Greek scholar and philosopher
Deaths[]
- Attalus II Philadelphus, king of Pergamon (b. 220 BC)
- Diodotus Tryphon, king of the Seleucid Empire
- Mithridates I, king of Parthia (b. c. 195 BC)
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