142 BC

Millennium:	1st millennium BC
Centuries:	3rd century BC – 2nd century BC – 1st century BC
Decades:	170s BC 160s BC 150s BC – 140s BC – 130s BC 120s BC 110s BC
Years:	145 BC 144 BC 143 BC – 142 BC – 141 BC 140 BC 139 BC

142 BC by topic
Politics
State leaders – Sovereign states
Birth and death categories
Births – Deaths
Establishments and disestablishments categories
Establishments – Disestablishments

142 BC in other calendars
Gregorian calendar	142 BC
Ab urbe condita	612
Armenian calendar	N/A
Assyrian calendar	4609
Bahá'í calendar	-1985–-1984
Bengali calendar	-734
Berber calendar	809
English Regnal year	N/A
Buddhist calendar	403
Burmese calendar	-779
Byzantine calendar	5367–5368
Chinese calendar	戊戌年 (2495/2555) — to — 己亥年 (2496/2556)
Coptic calendar	-425–-424
Ethiopian calendar	-149–-148
Hebrew calendar	3619–3620
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	-85–-84
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	2960–2961
Holocene calendar	9859
Iranian calendar	763 BP – 762 BP
Islamic calendar	786 BH – 785 BH
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar	2192
Minguo calendar	2053 before ROC 民前2053年
Thai solar calendar	402

Year 142 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Calvus and Servilianus (or, less frequently, year 612 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 142 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.

Events

By place

Syria

Diodotus Tryphon seizes the throne of the Seleucid Empire.

Roman Republic

The first stone bridge over the Tiber river is completed.

Judea

Simon Maccabaeus succeeds his brother Jonathan as High Priest of Judea until 135 BC.

Births

Ptolemy IX, Egyptian pharaoh