Editing 140 BC

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'''140 BC''' was a year of the [[Roman calendar|pre-Julian Roman calendar]]. At the time it was known as the '''Year of the Consulship of Sapiens and Caepio''' (or, less frequently, '''year 614 ''[[Ab urbe condita]]''''') and the '''First Year of Jianyuan'''. The denomination 140 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 ==
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=== By place ===
==== Africa ====
*[[Scipio Aemilianus]] leads a group of Roman ambassadors to [[Alexandria]], where they meet with King [[Ptolemy VIII Physcon|Ptolemy VIII]].

==== Judea ====
* [[Simon Maccabaeus]] crowned king of [[Judea]].
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== Births ==
* [[Huo Qubing]], Chinese general of the [[Han dynasty]] (d. [[117 BC]])
* [[Lucius Licinius Crassus]], Roman [[Roman consul|consul]] and statesman (d. [[91 BC]])
* [[Su Wu]], Chinese diplomat and statesman (d. [[60 BC]])<ref>{{cite book|last=Cranston|first=Edwin|title=A Waka Anthology: The Gem-Glistening Cup|year=1998|publisher=Stanford University Press|page=243}}</ref>
* [[Tigranes the Great]], king of [[Kingdom of Armenia (antiquity)|Armenia]] (d. [[55 BC]])

== Deaths ==
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== References ==
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