135 BC

Year 135 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Flaccus and Piso (or, less frequently, year 619 Ab urbe condita) and the Sixth Year of Jianyuan. The denomination 135 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

• The First Servile War starts in Sicily.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• Servius Fulvius Flaccus defeats an uprising of the Ardiaei in Illyria.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• Marcus Cosconius defeats the Scordisci in Thrace.<ref>T. Corey Brennan, The praetorship in the Roman Republic (2000) p. 229</ref><ref>Template:Harvnb</ref><ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

Bactria

• Menander I, king of the Indo-Greek Kingdom dies and is succeeded by Epander.

China

• Grand Empress Dowager Dou dies, which allows her grandson Emperor Wu to exert greater control over the empire.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• Minyue attacks Nanyue, which are both vassal states of the Han dynasty. The Han send two armies against Minyue under Wang Hui and Han Anguo, and Minyue's king Zou Ying is killed by his brother Zou Yushan, who then surrenders to the Han.
• Emperor Wu makes Zou Chou the king of Minyue, but Zou Yushan carves out two thirds of Minyue as the state of Dongyue, which Wu then recognizes.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• A Han military campaign against the Dian Kingdom establishes a military commandery in the Yunnan region.

Births

• Mithridates VI, king of Pontus (d. 63 BC)<ref>Mayor, Adrienne: "The Poison King: The Life and Legend of Mithradates, Rome's Deadliest Enemy" Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2009, Template:ISBN</ref><ref>Duggan, Alfred: He Died Old: Mithradates Eupator, King of Pontus, 1958</ref><ref>Ford, Michael Curtis: The Last King: Rome's Greatest Enemy, New York, Thomas Dunne Books, 2004, Template:ISBN</ref><ref>McGing, B.C.: The Foreign Policy of Mithridates VI Eupator, King of Pontus (Mnemosyne, Supplements: 89), Leiden, Brill Academic Publishers, 1986, Template:ISBN [paperback]</ref>
• Pompeius Strabo, Roman consul and father of Pompeius Magnus (d. 87 BC)
• Posidonius of Apamea, Greek Stoic philosopher and scientist (d. 51 BC)
• Sima Qian, Chinese historian of the Han dynasty (approximate date)

Deaths

• Menander I, king of the Indo-Greek Kingdom
• Simon Maccabaeus, prince of Judea and High Priest of Judea<ref>Catholic Bible resources</ref>

Bibliography

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