Years 130 BC.

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The years 130 BC cover the years 139 BC to 130 BC.

Events

139 B.C.: assassination of the rebel leader of Lusitanians, Viriathe. The war continues in Spain. The strong place of Numance, besieged by the Romans, resists for six years.
139-132 B.C.: First servile war in Sicily, fomented by the Syrian slave Eunus and watched by the Roman Calpurnius Pison. It has repercussions in Athens and Delos.
138-126 B.C.: Embassy of Zhang Qian to the Yuezhi, opening the Silk Road through the Tarim Basin. The first goal of the expedition was to unite with the Yuezhi against the Xiongnu.

138-128 B.C., Music: Dymphic hymns at Apollo, musical compositions (the second is attributed to Limenios), returned from marble slabs discovered at Delphi and dated 138 and 128 B.C.
133 BC:
Take Numance.
Attale III of Pergamum bequeathed his kingdom to the Romans.
Lex Sempronia.
133-129 B.C.: Aristonicos revolt against Rome in Asia.
133 B.C.: Battle of Mayi. war between the Xiongnu and the Han.

132-131 B.C.: Cleopatra II chases his brother Ptolemy VIII from Alexandria who takes refuge in Cyprus.

Around 130 B.C.: foundation of the Kuchan Empire by the Tokharians from the Aral Sea, North India and Afghanistan. Coming from the Yuezhi expelled from China by the Xiongnu, they settle in Bactrian and Sogdian and gradually destroy the Greco-Bactrian kingdom.

Significant characters
Antiochos VII
Attal III
Caius Papirius Carbo
Cleopatra II
Eunus
The Gracques
Jean Hyrcan
Micipsa
Scipion Nasica
Quintus Caecilius Metellus Macedonicus
Phraates II
Emilian Scipion
Zhang Qian

Notes and references

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