133 BC

Millennium:	1st millennium BC
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Years:	136 BC · 135 BC · 134 BC · 133 BC · 132 BC · 131 BC · 130 BC

133 BC in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	133 BC CXXXII BC
Ab urbe condita	621
Ancient Egypt era	XXXIII dynasty, 191
- Pharaoh	Ptolemy VIII Physcon, 13
Ancient Greek era	161st Olympiad, year 4
Assyrian calendar	4618
Bengali calendar	−725
Berber calendar	818
Buddhist calendar	412
Burmese calendar	−770
Byzantine calendar	5376–5377
Chinese calendar	丁未年 (Fire Goat) 2564 or 2504     — to — 戊申年 (Earth Monkey) 2565 or 2505
Coptic calendar	−416 – −415
Discordian calendar	1034
Ethiopian calendar	−140 – −139
Hebrew calendar	3628–3629
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	−76 – −75
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	2968–2969
Holocene calendar	9868
Iranian calendar	754 BP – 753 BP
Islamic calendar	777 BH – 776 BH
Javanese calendar	N/A
Julian calendar	N/A
Korean calendar	2201
Minguo calendar	2044 before ROC 民前2044年
Nanakshahi calendar	−1600
Seleucid era	179/180 AG
Thai solar calendar	410–411

The Roman empire in 133 BC (in dark and light red)

Year 133 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Scaevola and Frugi (or, less frequently, year 621 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 133 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 Republic

• Lucius Calpurnius Piso Frugi, as consul, is sent against the slaves in Italy. Gaius Marius serves under Publius Cornelius Scipio Aemilianus at Numantia.
• Scipio Aemilianus captures Numantia,^[1] after a siege of eight months, suffering famine and pestilence. The remnant population of 4,000 citizens, surrender and set their city on fire. Thus ends the Numantine War.
• Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus, is elected tribune of the people. He attempts to pass a law to redistribute the public land to benefit small landowners. Opposed by wealthier factions in the Roman Senate, he is killed by a group of Senators and their followers that same year.
• The Kingdom of Pergamum is deeded to Rome.

China

• June – A large army of the Han Dynasty, under commanders such as Li Guang, attempt to ambush the Xiongnu leader in the Battle of Mayi. The plot fails, and the battle is determined a draw.

Births

Deaths

• Attalus III, king of Pergamon. In his will, he makes the people of Rome his heirs (b. 170 BC)
• Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus the Roman tribune (assassination) (b. 168 BC)

References

1. Davis, Paul (2001). Besieged: An Encyclopedia of Great Sieges from Ancient Times to the Present. ABC-CLIO. p. 29.