39
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This article is about the year 39. For other uses, see 39 (number).
| Millennium: | 1st millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | 1st century BC - 1st century - 2nd century |
| Decades: | 0s 10s 20s - 30s - 40s 50s 60s |
| Years: | 36 37 38 - 39 - 40 41 42 |
| 39 by topic | |
| Politics | |
| State leaders - Sovereign states | |
| Birth and death categories | |
| Births - Deaths | |
| Establishment and disestablishment categories | |
| Establishments - Disestablishments | |
| Gregorian calendar | 39 XXXIX |
| Ab urbe condita | 792 |
| Armenian calendar | N/A |
| Bahá'í calendar | -1805 – -1804 |
| Berber calendar | 989 |
| Buddhist calendar | 583 |
| Burmese calendar | -599 |
| Byzantine calendar | 5547 – 5548 |
| Chinese calendar | 戊戌年十一月十七日 (2675/2735-11-17) — to —
己亥年十一月廿七日(2676/2736-11-27) |
| Coptic calendar | -245 – -244 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 31 – 32 |
| Hebrew calendar | 3799 – 3800 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 94 – 95 |
| - Shaka Samvat | N/A |
| - Kali Yuga | 3140 – 3141 |
| Holocene calendar | 10039 |
| Iranian calendar | 583 BP – 582 BP |
| Islamic calendar | 601 BH – 600 BH |
| Japanese calendar | |
| Korean calendar | 2372 |
| Thai solar calendar | 582 |
Year 39 was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
[edit] Events
[edit] By place
[edit] Roman Empire
- Tigellinus, minister and favorite of the later Roman emperor Nero, is banished for adultery with Caligula's sisters.
- Domitius Afer secures a consulship.
- Caligula is also a consul.
- Agrippa I, king of Judaea, successfully accuses Herod Antipas, tetrarch of Galilee and Perea, of conspiracy against Caligula. Antipas is exiled and Agrippa receives his territory.[1]
- Legio XV Primigenia and XXII Primigenia are levied by Caligula for the German frontier.
- Caligula's campaign into Germany is stopped by a conspiracy led by Cassius Chaerea.
- Caligula orders that a statue of himself be placed in the temple in Jerusalem. The governor of Syria, Publius Petronius, who is responsible for erecting the statue, faces mass demonstrations by Jews of the region and manages to delay construction of the statue until the death of Caligula (January 24, 41).
- Philo leads a Jewish delegation to Rome to protest the anti-Jewish conditions in Alexandria.
[edit] Asia
- The Trung Sisters resist the Chinese influences in Vietnam.
[edit] Births
- November 3 — Lucan, Roman poet
- December 30 — Titus Flavius, Roman emperor (79-81).
- Julia Drusilla, daughter of current Roman Emperor Caligula
- Britannicus, son of later Roman emperor Claudius and his third wife Messalina
[edit] Deaths
[edit] References
- ^ Josephus, Antiquities of the Jews 18.247–252; Bruce, F. F. (1963/1965). "Herod Antipas, Tetrarch of Galilee and Peraea" (PDF). Annual of Leeds University Oriental Society 5: 6–23, p. 21. http://www.biblicalstudies.org.uk/pdf/herod_bruce.pdf. Retrieved on 21 October 2007.
