39

Year 39 was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.__NOTOC__

Events

By place

Roman Empire

* Tigellinus, minister and favorite of the later Roman emperor Nero, is banished for adultery with Caligula's sisters.
* Domitius Afer secures a consulship.
* Caligula is also a consul.
* Agrippa I, king of Judaea, successfully accuses Herod Antipas, tetrarch of Galilee and Perea, of conspiracy against Caligula. Antipas is exiled and Agrippa receives his territory. [Josephus, "Antiquities of the Jews" [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?lookup=J.+AJ+18.247 18.247–252] ; cite journal |last=Bruce |first=F. F. |authorlink=F. F. Bruce |year=1963/1965 |title=Herod Antipas, Tetrarch of Galilee and Peraea |journal=Annual of Leeds University Oriental Society |volume=5 |pages=6–23, p. 21 |url=http://www.biblicalstudies.org.uk/pdf/herod_bruce.pdf |format=PDF |accessdate=2007-10-21 ]
* Legio XV "Primigenia" and XXII "Primigenia" are levied by Caligula for the German frontier.
* Caligula's campaign into Germany is stopped by a conspiracy led by Cassius Chaerea.
* Caligula orders that a statue of himself be placed in the temple in Jerusalem. The governor of Syria, Publius Petronius, who is responsible for erecting the statue, faces mass demonstrations by Jews of the region and manages to delay construction of the statue until the death of Caligula (January 24, 41).
* Philo leads a Jewish delegation to Rome to protest the anti-Jewish conditions in Alexandria.

Asia

* The Trung Sisters resist the Chinese influences in Vietnam.

Births

* November 3 — Lucan, Roman poet
* December 30 — Titus Flavius, Roman emperor (79-81).
* Julia Drusilla, daughter of current Roman Emperor Caligula
* Britannicus, son of later Roman emperor Claudius and his third wife Messalina

Deaths

* Seneca the Elder, Roman rhetorician

References