130s BC
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Events
139 BC
By place
China
- Emperor Wu of Han sends an envoy into Bactria, Parthia and Ferghana.
Roman Republic
- The Lusitanian War ends when the rebellion collapses after the assassination of Viriathus by a Roman agent.
By topic
Astronomy
- Hipparchus makes a very precise determination of the length of the synodic month.
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Births
- 138 BC – Lucius Cornelius Sulla, Roman politician, dictator 82-79 BC (d. 78 BC) [1]
- 133 BC – Mithridates VI, King of Pontus[2][3][4][5]
Deaths
- 137 BC – King Dutugemunu of Sri Lanka[6][7]
- 135 BC – Simon Maccabaeus, of Judea[8]
- 133 BC – Attalus III, king of Pergamon, leaving the kingdom to Rome[9][10][11]
References
- ↑ Marvin Perry et al., eds. Western Civilization: Ideas, Politics, and Society (Cengage Learning, 2008) p135
- ↑ Mayor, Adrienne: "The Poison King: The Life and Legend of Mithradates, Rome's Deadliest Enemy" Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2009, ISBN 978-0-691-12683-8
- ↑ Duggan, Alfred: He Died Old: Mithradates Eupator, King of Pontus, 1958
- ↑ Ford, Michael Curtis: The Last King: Rome's Greatest Enemy, New York, Thomas Dunne Books, 2004, ISBN 0-312-27539-0
- ↑ McGing, B.C.: The Foreign Policy of Mithridates VI Eupator, King of Pontus (Mnemosyne, Supplements: 89), Leiden, Brill Academic Publishers, 1986, ISBN 90-04-07591-7 [paperback]
- ↑ Paranavitana, Senarat; Nicholas, Cyril Wace (1961). A Concise History of Ceylon. Colombo: Ceylon University Press. p. 59. OCLC 465385.
- ↑ de Silva, C.R.: Sri Lanka - A History. 2nd edition, New Delhi 1997. ISBN 81-259-0461-1. p.29f.
- ↑ Catholic Bible resources
- ↑ Hansen, Esther V. (1971). The Attalids of Pergamon. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press; London: Cornell University Press Ltd. ISBN 0-8014-0615-3.
- ↑ Kosmetatou, Elizabeth (2003) "The Attalids of Pergamon," in Andrew Erskine, ed., A Companion to the Hellenistic World. Oxford: Blackwell: pp. 159–174. ISBN 1-4051-3278-7. text
- ↑ Simon Hornblower and Tony Spawforth, Who's Who (Classical World), pg. 61.