138 BC

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138 BC in various calendars

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
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

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). 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

Parthia

• Phraates II becomes Emperor of Parthia.

Asia

• Zhang Qian begins his explorations in central Asia for Chinese emperor Han Wu Di.
• The first Chinese diplomatic mission to the Ferghana valley, led by Chang Chien, is sent.
• Han Dynasty China intervenes in a war between the Minyue and Eastern Ou during its expansion southward.

Europe

• Valencia in Spain is founded as a Roman colony

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)

Deaths

• Diodotus Tryphon (suicide)
• Mithridates I, King of Parthia (b. c. 195 BC)
• Attalus II Philadelphus, King of Pergamon (b. 220 BC)

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