39

39 is a year in the 1st century. It was a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Augustus and Corbulo

 Events 
 Roman Empire 
 Tigellinus, minister and favorite of the later Roman emperor Nero, is banished for adultery with Caligula's sisters.
 Domitius Afer becomes a consul.
 Caligula is also a consul.
 Agrippa I, king of Iudaea, is called back to Rome.
 Legio XV Primigenia and XXII Primigenia are levied by Caligula for the German frontier.
 Caligula's campaign into Germany was stopped by a conspiracy led by Cassius Chaerea.
 Caligula orders that a statue of himself be placed in the temple in Jerusalem. Jews protest.  They are able to stop 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 Chinese influence 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
 Herod Antipas

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