140 BC.

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This page concerns the year 140 of the Julian Proleptic calendar.

Events
7 October 141 B.C. (January 614 of the Roman calendar): beginning in Rome of the Consulate of Quintus Servilius Caepio and Caius Laelius Sapiens.
Consul Caepio is sent to later Hispania to raise his brother Fabius Servilianus; he resumed the fight against Viriathe in contempt of the treaty signed by Servilianus. He managed to take Erisana by hand. Surprised, Viriathe left Bétique and retired to Carpetania. Caepio pursued him, but he managed to escape and win Lusitania. Caepio then attacked his allies Vettons to cut off his supplies and for the first time entered the mountainous country of Gallaeci. He built a road between Guadiana (Anas) and Tagus (Tagus) and a permanent camp in Castra Servilia, near Cáceres.
February: conquest of Suse by the Parthians.

Between September 7 and February 12, 139 B.C.: Cleopatra III married his uncle Ptolemy Évergete.

The travelling embassy of Scipion Émilien, Spurius Mummius and Lucius Caecilius Metellus Calvus for the entire eastern basin (140-139 BC). Scipion is accompanied by his adviser the stoic philosopher Panetios of Rhodes. and visit Alexandria, Cyprus, Syria, Pergamum, Rhodes...

Births

Tigran II of Armenia
Salome Alexandra, Queen of the Hasmonean Dynasty

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