139 BC

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139 BC in various calendars
Gregorian calendar 139 BC
CXXXVIII BC
Ab urbe condita 615
Ancient Egypt era XXXIII dynasty, 185
- Pharaoh Ptolemy VIII Physcon, 7
Ancient Greek era 160th Olympiad, year 2
Assyrian calendar 4612
Balinese saka calendar N/A
Bengali calendar −731
Berber calendar 812
Buddhist calendar 406
Burmese calendar −776
Byzantine calendar 5370–5371
Chinese calendar 辛丑(Metal  Ox)
2558 or 2498
     to 
壬寅年 (Water  Tiger)
2559 or 2499
Coptic calendar −422 – −421
Discordian calendar 1028
Ethiopian calendar −146 – −145
Hebrew calendar 3622–3623
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat −82 – −81
 - Shaka Samvat N/A
 - Kali Yuga 2962–2963
Holocene calendar 9862
Iranian calendar 760 BP – 759 BP
Islamic calendar 783 BH – 782 BH
Javanese calendar N/A
Julian calendar N/A
Korean calendar 2195
Minguo calendar 2050 before ROC
民前2050年
Nanakshahi calendar −1606
Seleucid era 173/174 AG
Thai solar calendar 404–405
Tibetan calendar 阴金牛年
(female Iron-Ox)
−12 or −393 or −1165
     to 
阳水虎年
(male Water-Tiger)
−11 or −392 or −1164

Year 139 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Piso and Laenas (or, less frequently, year 615 Ab urbe condita ) and the Second Year of Jianyuan. The denomination 139 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.

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  • Emperor Wu of Han sends the diplomat Zhang Qian west to form an alliance with the Yuezhi against the Xiongnu. Wu does this after learning from Xiongnu defectors that the Xiongnu had defeated and killed the king of the Yuezhi, had expelled the Yuezhi from their lands and were using their king's skull as a wine goblet. The Yuezhi had subsequently migrated further west.
  • Soon after his departure for the west, Zhang Qian is detained by Junchen Chanyu of the Xiongnu. He would remain in Xiongnu custody for more than ten years and would be given a Xiongnu wife. [1]
  • Wei Zifu enters Emperor Wu's palace as a concubine and becomes pregnant. Enraged, Liu Piao, the mother of the childless Empress Chen Jiao (wife of Emperor Wu), kidnaps Zifu's brother Wei Qing, who is rescued by Gongsun Ao. Wu responds by advancing the careers of members of the Wei family. [2]

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References

  1. Hung, Hing Ming (2020). The Magnificent Emperor Wu: China's Han Dynasty. pp. 144–145. ISBN   978-1628944167.
  2. Hung, Hing Ming (2020). The Magnificent Emperor Wu: China's Han Dynasty. p. 132. ISBN   978-1628944167.