138 BC

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Heads of State

Year of the Water Hare癸卯( at the beginning of the year Water Tiger壬寅)

Syria: 174/175 ( year in October )

Events

Politics and World Affairs

• Attalus III. after the death of King Attalos II of Pergamon.
• Antiochus VII, brother of Demetrius II, defeated the usurper Diodotus Tryphon and takes over the rule in the Seleucid Empire.
• The Romans conquer Lusitania ( Spanish War ).

Culture

• 138 BC: The first of the two Delphic Hymns is composed.

Born

• 138 BC: Lucius Appuleius Saturninus, Roman politician ( † 100 BC)
• 138 BC: Lucius Cornelius Sulla Felix, Roman statesman and dictator († 78 BC)

Died

• Antiochus VI. , King of the Seleucid Empire (c. 148 BC )
• Attalos II, king of Pergamon ( * 220 BC)
• Diodotus Tryphon, king of the Seleucid in Syria