139 BC

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Heads of State

Year of the Water Tiger壬寅( at the beginning of the year metal buffalo辛丑)

Syria: 173/174 ( year in October )

Events

Politics and World Affairs

  • The Romans under Quintus Servilius Caepio break the peace on the Iberian Peninsula and murder Viriathus. The revolt of the Celtiberian in Lusitania then interrupts together quickly. The Romans can conquer Conimbriga, later Coimbra.
  • The astrologers of Rome are sold under the praetor Gnaeus Cornelius Scipio Hispanus out of town.

Disasters

  • Destruction of the city Kameiros ( Rhodes ) by an earthquake.

Died

  • Viriathus, Lusitanian rebel against Rome (c. 180 BC)
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