AD 139

"139 (year)" redirects here. For the year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar, see 139 BC.

Year 139 (CXXXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, in Western civilization, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Hadrianus and Praesens (or, less frequently, year 892 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 139 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.

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	1st century 2nd century 3rd century
Decades:	110s 120s 130s 140s 150s
Years:	136 137 138 139 140 141 142

139 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	139 CXXXIX
Ab urbe condita	892
Assyrian calendar	4889
Balinese saka calendar	60–61
Bengali calendar	−454
Berber calendar	1089
Buddhist calendar	683
Burmese calendar	−499
Byzantine calendar	5647–5648
Chinese calendar	戊寅年 (Earth Tiger) 2836 or 2629     — to — 己卯年 (Earth Rabbit) 2837 or 2630
Coptic calendar	−145 – −144
Discordian calendar	1305
Ethiopian calendar	131–132
Hebrew calendar	3899–3900
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	195–196
- Shaka Samvat	60–61
- Kali Yuga	3239–3240
Holocene calendar	10139
Iranian calendar	483 BP – 482 BP
Islamic calendar	498 BH – 497 BH
Javanese calendar	14–15
Julian calendar	139 CXXXIX
Korean calendar	2472
Minguo calendar	1773 before ROC 民前1773年
Nanakshahi calendar	−1329
Seleucid era	450/451 AG
Thai solar calendar	681–682
Tibetan calendar	阳土虎年 (male Earth-Tiger) 265 or −116 or −888     — to — 阴土兔年 (female Earth-Rabbit) 266 or −115 or −887

Events

By place

Roman Empire

• The Tomb of Hadrian in Rome is completed; Emperor Antoninus Pius cremates the body of Hadrian, and places his ashes, together with that of his wife Vibia Sabina and his adopted son, Lucius Aelius, in the mausoleum.
• Marcus Aurelius is named Caesar. He marries the 9-year-old Faustina the Younger, daughter of Antoninus Pius.
• Antoninus Pius and Gaius Bruttius Praesens become Roman Consuls.

Armenia

• 139 Mcurn earthquake, listed in bibliographical records of seismology as having affected the city of Mcurn (modern Hösnek, Turkey). The earthquake reportedly took place in the vicinity of Mount Ararat. The region was part of the historic Kingdom of Armenia, corresponding to eastern areas of modern Turkey. A primary source for the earthquake is the work of the historian Movses Khorenatsi (5th century).

Deaths

• Zhang Heng, Chinese astronomer and statesman (b. AD 78)

Sources

• Guidoboni, Emanuela; Traina, Giusto (1995), A new catalogue of earthquakes in the historical Armenian area from antiquity to the 12th century, Annals of Geophysics