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137 BC

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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). 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.

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Roman Republic

  • Slaves led by Eunus of Apamea in Sicily revolt against the Romans in an event called the First Servile War.
  • Tiberius Gracchus, quaestor in Spain, observes that slave labor has displaced small freeheld farms.
  • Numantine War begun, Quintus Pompeius and M. Papilius Laenas were defeated and disgraced by the Numantians in subsequent years.
  • Q. Pompeius is brought to trial by Q.Metellus and others, but acquitted.

    • Deaths

  • Dutugamunu King of Sri Lanka
  • Zhao Tuo, Emperor Wu of Nanyue (b. 240 BC)

    • References

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