137 BC

Millennium:	1st millennium BC
Centuries:	3rd century BC – 2nd century BC – 1st century BC
Decades:	160s BC  150s BC  140s BC  – 130s BC –  120s BC  110s BC  100s BC
Years:	140 BC 139 BC 138 BC – 137 BC – 136 BC 135 BC 134 BC

137 BC in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	137 BC CXXXVI BC
Ab urbe condita	617
Ancient Egypt era	XXXIII dynasty, 187
- Pharaoh	Ptolemy VIII Physcon, 9
Ancient Greek era	160th Olympiad, year 4
Assyrian calendar	4614
Bengali calendar	−729
Berber calendar	814
Buddhist calendar	408
Burmese calendar	−774
Byzantine calendar	5372–5373
Chinese calendar	癸卯年 (Water Rabbit) 2560 or 2500     — to — 甲辰年 (Wood Dragon) 2561 or 2501
Coptic calendar	−420 – −419
Discordian calendar	1030
Ethiopian calendar	−144 – −143
Hebrew calendar	3624–3625
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	−80 – −79
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	2965–2966
Holocene calendar	9864
Iranian calendar	758 BP – 757 BP
Islamic calendar	781 BH – 780 BH
Julian calendar	N/A
Korean calendar	2197
Minguo calendar	2048 before ROC 民前2048年
Seleucid era	175/176 AG
Thai solar calendar	406–407

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.

Events

By place

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.

Births

• Lucius Cornelius Sulla

Deaths

• King Dutugamunu of Sri Lanka
• Zhao Tuo, King (Emperor) Wu of Nanyue (b. c. 230 BC)