129 BC

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  100s BC  90s BC
Years:	132 BC 131 BC 130 BC – 129 BC – 128 BC 127 BC 126 BC

129 BC by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

129 BC in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	129 BC
Ab urbe condita	625
Armenian calendar	N/A
Assyrian calendar	4622
Bahá'í calendar	-1972–-1971
Bengali calendar	-721
Berber calendar	822
English Regnal year	N/A
Buddhist calendar	416
Burmese calendar	-766
Byzantine calendar	5380–5381
Chinese calendar	辛亥年 (2508/2568) — to — 壬子年 (2509/2569)
Coptic calendar	-412–-411
Ethiopian calendar	-136–-135
Hebrew calendar	3632–3633
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	-72–-71
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	2973–2974
Holocene calendar	9872
Iranian calendar	750 BP – 749 BP
Islamic calendar	773 BH – 772 BH
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar	2205
Minguo calendar	2040 before ROC 民前2040年
Thai solar calendar	415

Year 129 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Tuditanus and Aquillius (or, less frequently, year 625 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 129 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

By place

Roman Republic

• Kingdom of Pergamon, including Hierapolis, becomes the Roman Province of Asia upon death of last Attalid king, Attalos III, and after the defeat of the pretender Aristonicus by M. Perperna, with Cappadocian assistance.
• C. Sempronius Tuditanus celebrates his triumph over the Iapydes of Illyria.
• Scipio Aemilianus, victor of Carthage is assassinated by his enemies in Rome.

Syria

• Battle of Ecbatana: The Seleucid King Antiochus VII Sidetes is defeated and killed by the Parthians under Phraates II, ending Seleucid control over Media or Mesopotamia.
• Having been freed by the Parthians, Demetrius II of Syria recovers the throne of the Seleucid Empire.

Asia

• Emperor Han Wudi of China of the Han dynasty launches his first offensive into the northern steppe.

By topic

Astronomy

• Hipparchus publishes his catalog of stars.
• Total solar eclipse, used by Hipparchus to estimate distance to the moon.

Deaths

• Antiochus VII Sidetes (killed in battle)
• Carneades, philosopher, and founder of Third Academy (b. c. 214 BC)
• P. Cornelius Scipio Aemilianus Africanus Numantinus (Africanus the Younger) (b. 185 BC)