__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 ''Ab urbe condita'' (; 'from the founding of Rome, founding of the City'), or (; 'in the year since the city's founding'), abbreviated as AUC or AVC, expresses a date in years since 753 BC, 753 BC, the traditional founding of Rome. It is ...

'') and the Third Year of Jianyuan. The denomination 138 BC for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the

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became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

Events

By place

Roman Empire

* Tautalus surrenders to the Romans. *

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in Spain is founded as a Roman

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Asia Minor

* Attalus III succeeds Attalus II as Attalid king of Pergamon

Egypt

* Galaestes revolts.

Syria

* Antiochus VII expels Diodotus Tryphon. * Tryphon sacks

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Parthia

* Phraates II becomes emperor of

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China

* Grand Empress Dowager Dou, the grandmother of

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, 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

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; it is the earliest surviving notated music, in a substantial and legible fragment, in the

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Births

* Lucius Cornelius Sulla, Roman general and statesman (d.

78 BC __NOTOC__ Year 78 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Lepidus and Catulus. Later and less frequently, it was known as the year 676 AUC). The denomination 78 BC for this year ...

) * 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

(b. c. 195 BC)

References

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