137 BC

Millennium:	1st millennium BC
Centuries:	3rd century BC 2nd century BC 1st century BC
Decades:	150s BC 140s BC 130s BC 120s BC 110s BC
Years:	140 BC 139 BC 138 BC 137 BC 136 BC 135 BC 134 BC

137 BC in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	137 BC CXXXVII BC
Ab urbe condita	617
Ancient Egypt era	XXXIII dynasty, 187
- Pharaoh	Ptolemy VIII Physcon, 9
Ancient Greek era	160th Olympiad, year 4
Assyrian calendar	4614
Balinese saka calendar	N/A
Bengali calendar	−729
Berber calendar	814
Buddhist calendar	408
Burmese calendar	−774
Byzantine calendar	5372–5373
Chinese calendar	癸卯年 (Water Rabbit) 2561 or 2354     — to — 甲辰年 (Wood Dragon) 2562 or 2355
Coptic calendar	−420 – −419
Discordian calendar	1030
Ethiopian calendar	−144 – −143
Hebrew calendar	3624–3625
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	−80 – −79
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	2964–2965
Holocene calendar	9864
Iranian calendar	758 BP – 757 BP
Islamic calendar	781 BH – 780 BH
Javanese calendar	N/A
Julian calendar	N/A
Korean calendar	2197
Minguo calendar	2048 before ROC 民前2048年
Nanakshahi calendar	−1604
Seleucid era	175/176 AG
Thai solar calendar	406–407
Tibetan calendar	阴水兔年 (female Water-Rabbit) −10 or −391 or −1163     — to — 阳木龙年 (male Wood-Dragon) −9 or −390 or −1162

Year 137 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Porcina and Mancinus (or, less frequently, year 617 Ab urbe condita) and the Fourth Year of Jianyuan. The denomination 137 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

Roman Republic

• Tiberius Gracchus, quaestor in Spain, observes that slave labor has displaced small freeheld farms.
• Numantine War begins, Quintus Pompeius and M. Papilius Laenas are defeated and disgraced by the Numantians in subsequent years.
• Q. Pompeius is brought to trial by Q.Metellus and others, but acquitted.

Births

Deaths

• Dutugamunu King of Sri Lanka^[1][2]
• Zhao Tuo, Emperor Wu of Nanyue (b. 240 BC)

References

1. Paranavitana, Senarat; Nicholas, Cyril Wace (1961). A Concise History of Ceylon. Colombo: Ceylon University Press. p. 59. OCLC 465385.
2. de Silva, C.R.: Sri Lanka - A History. 2nd edition, New Delhi 1997. ISBN 81-259-0461-1. p.29f.