142 BC

Millennium:	1st millennium BC
Centuries:	3rd century BC – 2nd century BC – 1st century BC
Decades:	170s BC  160s BC  150s BC  – 140s BC –  130s BC  120s BC  110s BC
Years:	145 BC 144 BC 143 BC – 142 BC – 141 BC 140 BC 139 BC

142 BC in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	142 BC CXLI BC
Ab urbe condita	612
Ancient Egypt era	XXXIII dynasty, 182
- Pharaoh	Ptolemy VIII Physcon, 4
Ancient Greek era	159th Olympiad, year 3
Assyrian calendar	4609
Bengali calendar	−734
Berber calendar	809
Buddhist calendar	403
Burmese calendar	−779
Byzantine calendar	5367–5368
Chinese calendar	戊戌年 (Earth Dog) 2555 or 2495     — to — 己亥年 (Earth Pig) 2556 or 2496
Coptic calendar	−425 – −424
Discordian calendar	1025
Ethiopian calendar	−149 – −148
Hebrew calendar	3619–3620
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	−85 – −84
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	2960–2961
Holocene calendar	9859
Iranian calendar	763 BP – 762 BP
Islamic calendar	786 BH – 785 BH
Julian calendar	N/A
Korean calendar	2192
Minguo calendar	2053 before ROC 民前2053年
Seleucid era	170/171 AG
Thai solar calendar	401–402

Year 142 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Calvus and Servilianus (or, less frequently, year 612 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 142 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

Syria

• Diodotus Tryphon seizes the throne of the Seleucid Empire.

Roman Republic

• The first stone bridge over the Tiber river is completed.

Judea

• Simon Maccabaeus succeeds his brother Jonathan as High Priest of Judea until 135 BC.

Births

• Ptolemy IX, Egyptian pharaoh (d. 81 BC)