Editing AD 39 (section)

==== Roman Empire ====
* [[Tigellinus]], minister and favorite of the later [[Roman emperor]] [[Nero]], is banished for [[adultery]] with [[Caligula]]'s sisters.
* [[Caligula|Gaius Caesar Augustus Germanicus (Caligula)]] and [[Gnaeus Domitius Corbulo]] become [[Roman consul]]s.  
* Caligula orders a [[pontoon bridge|floating bridge]] to be built using ships as [[pontoon (boat)|pontoons]], stretching for two miles from [[Baiae]] to the neighboring port of [[Pozzuoli|Puteoli]].  
* [[Agrippa I]], king of [[Judea|Judaea]], successfully accuses [[Herod Antipas]], tetrarch of [[Galilee]] and [[Perea (Holy Land)|Perea]], of conspiracy against Caligula. Antipas is exiled and Agrippa receives his territory.<ref>[[Josephus]], ''[[Antiquities of the Jews]]'' [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?lookup=J.+AJ+18.247 18.247&ndash;252]; {{cite journal |last=Bruce |first=F. F. |author-link=F. F. Bruce |year=1963–1965 |title=Herod Antipas, Tetrarch of Galilee and Peraea |journal=Annual of Leeds University Oriental Society |volume=5 |pages=6&ndash;23, p. 21 |url=http://www.biblicalstudies.org.uk/pdf/herod_bruce.pdf |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/http://www.biblicalstudies.org.uk/pdf/herod_bruce.pdf |archive-date=2022-10-09 |url-status=live |format=[[Portable Document Format|PDF]] |access-date=2007-10-21 }}</ref>
* [[Legio XV Primigenia|Legio XV ''Primigenia'']] and [[Legio XXII Primigenia|XXII ''Primigenia'']] are levied by Caligula for the [[Germany|German]] frontier.
* Caligula's campaign into Germany is stopped by a conspiracy led by [[Cassius Chaerea]]. Even though he never even reaches Germany, Caligula proclaims himself victorious and orders a triumph.
* [[Caligula]] orders that a statue of himself be placed in the [[Temple in Jerusalem]].  The governor of [[Syria]], Publius Petronius, who is responsible for having an erecting  the statue, faces mass demonstrations by Jews of the region and manages to delay construction of the statue until the death of Caligula in [[AD 41]].
* [[Philo]] leads a [[Jewish]] delegation to Rome to protest the anti-Jewish conditions in [[Alexandria]].