138 BC

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[edit] Events

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[edit] Parthia

• Phraates II becomes Emperor of Parthia.

[edit] 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.

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[edit] Arts & 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.

[edit] Births

• Sulla, Roman politician (approximate date).

[edit] Deaths

• Diodotus Tryphon (suicide)
• Mithridates I, King of Parthia
• Attalus II Philadelphus, King of Pergamon