138 BC

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Contents

Events

By place

Parthia

Asia

By topic

Arts & sciences

Births

Deaths

Events

By place

Parthia

★ Phraates II becomes Emperor of Parthia.

Asia

★ Zhang Qian begins his explorations in central Asia for Chinese emperor Han Wu Di.

★ The first Chinese diplomatic mission to the Ferghana valley, led by Chang Chien.

By topic

Arts & sciences

★ Hymn to Apollo is written and inscribed on stone in Delphi; it is the earliest surviving notated music, in a substantial and legible fragment, in the western world.

Births

★ Sulla, Roman politician (approximate date)

Deaths

★ Diodotus Tryphon (suicide)

★ Mithridates I, King of Parthia

★ Attalus II Philadelphus, King of Pergamon