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138 BC

NOTOC 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

  • Tautalus surrenders to the Romans.
  • Valencia in Spain is founded as a Roman colony.

Asia Minor

  • Attalus III succeeds Attalus II as Attalid king of Pergamon

Egypt

  • Galaestes 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.

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)
  • 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)

References

References

  1. Hung, Hing Ming. (2020). "The Magnificent Emperor Wu: China's Han Dynasty". Algora.
  2. Marvin Perry et al., eds. ''Western Civilization: Ideas, Politics, and Society'' (Cengage Learning, 2008) p135
  3. (February 13, 2024). "Attalus II Philadelphus".
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