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Year '''135 BC''' was a year of the [[Roman calendar|pre-Julian Roman calendar]]. At the time it was known as the '''Year of the Consulship of Flaccus and Piso''' (or, less frequently, '''year 619 ''[[Ab urbe condita]]''''') and the '''Sixth Year of Jianyuan'''. The denomination 135 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.

== Events ==
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=== By place ===
==== Roman Republic ====
* The [[First Servile War]] starts in Sicily.<ref>{{cite web|title=World History 200- 100 BC|url=http://www.historycentral.com/dates/200bc.html|access-date=28 June 2010}}</ref>
* [[Servius Fulvius Flaccus]] defeats an uprising of the [[Ardiaei]] in [[Illyria]].<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/dictionaryofgree02smituoft|title=Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology|last=Smith|first=William|date=1870|publisher=Boston, Little|volume=2|page=[https://archive.org/details/dictionaryofgree02smituoft/page/155 155]}}</ref>
* Marcus Cosconius defeats the [[Scordisci]] in Thrace.<ref>[[T. Corey Brennan]], ''The praetorship in the Roman Republic'' (2000) p. 229</ref><ref>{{harvnb|Papazoglu|1978|p=286}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|author=Livy|title=Rome's Mediterranean Empire: Books 41-45 and the Periochae|url=https://archive.org/details/romesmediterrane0000livy|url-access=registration|date=2007|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-160539-0|pages=[https://archive.org/details/romesmediterrane0000livy/page/268 268]}}</ref>

==== Bactria ====
* [[Menander I]], king of the [[Indo-Greek Kingdom]] dies and is succeeded by [[Epander]].

==== China ====
* [[Empress Dou (Wen)|Grand Empress Dowager Dou]] dies, which allows her grandson [[Emperor Wu of Han|Emperor Wu]] to exert greater control over the empire.<ref>{{cite book|first=Hing Ming|last= Hung|title=The Magnificent Emperor Wu: China's Han Dynasty|year= 2020|isbn=978-1628944167|page= 124|publisher= Algora}}</ref>
* [[Minyue]] attacks [[Nanyue]], which are both vassal states of the [[Han dynasty]]. [[Han campaigns against Minyue|The Han send two armies against Minyue]] under Wang Hui and Han Anguo, and Minyue's king Zou Ying is killed by his brother Zou Yushan, who then surrenders to the Han.
* Emperor Wu makes Zou Chou the king of Minyue, but Zou Yushan carves out two thirds of Minyue as the state of Dongyue, which Wu then recognizes.<ref>{{cite book|first=Hing Ming|last= Hung|title=The Magnificent Emperor Wu: China's Han Dynasty|year= 2020|isbn=978-1628944167|pages= 183–185|publisher= Algora}}</ref>
* A [[Han conquest of Dian|Han military campaign against]] the [[Dian Kingdom]] establishes a military commandery in the [[Yunnan]] region.
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== Births ==
* [[Mithridates VI of Pontus|Mithridates VI]], king of [[Kingdom of Pontus|Pontus]] (d. [[63 BC]])<ref>Mayor, Adrienne: "The Poison King: The Life and Legend of Mithradates, Rome's Deadliest Enemy" Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2009, {{ISBN|978-0-691-12683-8}}</ref><ref>Duggan, Alfred: ''He Died Old: Mithradates Eupator, King of Pontus'', 1958</ref><ref>Ford, Michael Curtis: ''The Last King: Rome's Greatest Enemy'', New York, Thomas Dunne Books, 2004, {{ISBN|0-312-27539-0}}</ref><ref>McGing, B.C.: ''The Foreign Policy of Mithridates VI Eupator, King of Pontus'' (''Mnemosyne'', Supplements: 89), Leiden, Brill Academic Publishers, 1986, {{ISBN|90-04-07591-7}} [paperback]</ref>
* [[Pompeius Strabo]], Roman consul and father of [[Pompey|Pompeius Magnus]] (d. [[87 BC]])
* [[Posidonius|Posidonius of Apamea]], Greek [[Stoicism|Stoic]] philosopher and scientist (d. [[51 BC]])
* [[Sima Qian]], Chinese historian of the [[Han dynasty]] (approximate date)

== Deaths ==
* [[Menander I]], king of the [[Indo-Greek Kingdom]]
* [[Simon Maccabaeus]], prince of [[Hasmonean dynasty|Judea]] and [[List of High Priests of Israel|High Priest of Judea]]<ref>[http://catholicbibleresources.net/Bible/History-HellenisticEra.htm Catholic Bible resources]</ref>

== References ==
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==Bibliography==
* {{Cite book|last=Papazoglu|first=Fanula|author-link=Fanula Papazoglu|title=The Central Balkan Tribes in pre-Roman Times: Triballi, Autariatae, Dardanians, Scordisci and Moesians|year=1978|location=Amsterdam|publisher=Hakkert|isbn=978-90-256-0793-7 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Up4JAQAAIAAJ}}


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