133 BC

Year 133 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Scaevola and Frugi (or, less frequently, year 621 Ab urbe condita) and the Second Year of Yuanguang. The denomination 133 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.

Millennium:	1st millennium BC
Centuries:	3rd century BC 2nd century BC 1st century BC
Decades:	150s BC 140s BC 130s BC 120s BC 110s BC
Years:	136 BC 135 BC 134 BC 133 BC 132 BC 131 BC 130 BC

132 BC in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	132 BC CXXXI BC
Ab urbe condita	622
Ancient Egypt era	XXXIII dynasty, 192
- Pharaoh	Ptolemy VIII Physcon, 14
Ancient Greek era	162nd Olympiad (victor)¹
Assyrian calendar	4619
Balinese saka calendar	N/A
Bengali calendar	−724
Berber calendar	819
Buddhist calendar	413
Burmese calendar	−769
Byzantine calendar	5377–5378
Chinese calendar	戊申年 (Earth Monkey) 2565 or 2505     — to — 己酉年 (Earth Rooster) 2566 or 2506
Coptic calendar	−415 – −414
Discordian calendar	1035
Ethiopian calendar	−139 – −138
Hebrew calendar	3629–3630
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	−75 – −74
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	2969–2970
Holocene calendar	9869
Iranian calendar	753 BP – 752 BP
Islamic calendar	776 BH – 775 BH
Javanese calendar	N/A
Julian calendar	N/A
Korean calendar	2202
Minguo calendar	2043 before ROC 民前2043年
Nanakshahi calendar	−1599
Seleucid era	180/181 AG
Thai solar calendar	411–412
Tibetan calendar	阳土猴年 (male Earth-Monkey) −5 or −386 or −1158     — to — 阴土鸡年 (female Earth-Rooster) −4 or −385 or −1157

The Roman empire in 133 BC (in dark and light red)

Events

Roman Republic

• Lucius Calpurnius Piso Frugi, as consul, is sent against the slaves in Italy. Gaius Marius serves under Publius Cornelius Scipio Aemilianus at Numantia.
• Scipio Aemilianus captures Numantia,[1] after a siege of eight months, suffering famine and pestilence. The remnant population of 4,000 citizens, surrender and set their city on fire. Thus ends the Numantine War.
• Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus, is elected tribune of the people. He attempts to pass a law to redistribute the public land to benefit small landowners. Opposed by wealthier factions in the Roman Senate, he is killed by a group of Senators and their followers that same year.
• The Kingdom of Pergamum is deeded to Rome, Aristonicus starts a rebellion against this.

China

• June – A large army of the Han Dynasty, under commanders such as Li Guang, attempts to ambush the Xiongnu leader in the Battle of Mayi. The plot fails, and the battle is determined a draw.

Deaths

• Attalus III, king of Pergamon. In his will, he makes the people of Rome his heirs (b. 170 BC)[2][3][4]
• Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus the Roman tribune (assassination) (b. 168 BC)

References

1. Davis, Paul (2001). Besieged: An Encyclopedia of Great Sieges from Ancient Times to the Present. ABC-CLIO. p. 29.
2. Hansen, Esther V. (1971). The Attalids of Pergamon. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press; London: Cornell University Press Ltd. ISBN 0-8014-0615-3.
3. Kosmetatou, Elizabeth (2003) "The Attalids of Pergamon," in Andrew Erskine, ed., A Companion to the Hellenistic World. Oxford: Blackwell: pp. 159–174. ISBN 1-4051-3278-7. text
4. Simon Hornblower and Tony Spawforth, Who's Who (Classical World), pg. 61.